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Originally Posted by Hadrien
If the file is suited for the device
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That's a big "If".
So, let's say I am an author. I want to make my Great American Novel availble as an eBook. What size should I make it?
Well, obviously, I should make an 8.5x11" size for those who want to print it off to read.
Then there's the iLiad, which is 6x5" (I think).
Then there's the Sony, which is 4x5" (I think).
Then there's the Palm, which is 2x3" - oooohhh that's only the TX/T5. So I also have to make a 2x2" version for the "smart"phones and lower res Palms.
And that's just the devices I know of.
The point is that with PDF,
I have to know the screen sizes of all the devices I intend to support before hand.
When you get a new device, you are out of luck if it's not close to a current device.
Add to that that most authors aren't going to know about more than the top 2 devices (authors usually being more focused on words than cool gadgets).
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Originally Posted by Hadrien
There's advantages with reflowable format too, mostly the fact that the same file will work ok everywhere, but a page-oriented format will look better if you do it the right way.
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For all intents and purposes, reflowable PDFs don't exist. Only the Windows version of the Reader support it and no one makes PDFs in that form.
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Originally Posted by Hadrien
Oh and PDF support is everywhere, I really doubt it'll die anytime soon...
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So is HTML, RTF, Text, and others that don't have PDFs problems with eBooks.
PDF is dead already. Adobe just hasn't realized it yet.