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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
A recent survey by O'Reilly seems to bear this out, as it indicates that PDF is still the dominant e-book format. It is considered to be flexible, but best read on computers and laptops, suggesting that the combination of PDFs on full computers and laptops ably dominate the industry.
(Interesting, though, as I've never sold a single novel in PDF, and when I removed PDF from my selections, I was never asked to put them back in. But they could be creating their own from RTF files...)
Jow Wickert of O'Reilly says ePub is a distant second, but as more devices and apps add the format to their list, this may change quickly... |
Consider what O'Reilly publishes: computer tech manuals. Their books are typically read on a workstation in a window or screen while a developer is working on what is covered in the book in another window/screen. They aren't the sort of books you normally sit down and read cover to cover.
For that usage, PDF is just the thing. We dislike PDFs for ebook readers because they generally don't reflow to fit smaller screen sizes, but in the O'Reilly usage, you neither need nor want them to.
You publish fiction, with completely different reading patterns and usages, so no surprise your results differ.
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Dennis