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Originally Posted by Sonist
E-reader technology will fast move beyond tiny, monochrome screens and weak processors. With mass production, comes general standardization of screen sizes, and resolutions.
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Sorry, I'm really not that interested in what'll be the case in a few decades time. I'm interested in
now. More, small-format is an advantage to many people, so counting on all the screens being bigger in the future is unwise.
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More people read newspapers and magazines, than books. Readers will only become truly mass market items...
So, you need a format, which can handle complex layouts, such as magazines and newspapers, as well as books...
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Well, guess what? Magazines and newspapers won't stay in the same format. Their current form is a reflection of the limitations of text. It'd be better to look at their website, and realise with wifi a HTML rendering engine is not much different to ePuB's XHTML one, and indeed I'd not be surprised to see a spinoff standard handle that.
PDF is a dead end for that, it cannot handle dynamic content.