Thread: Microsoft is getting back into ebooks!
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Old 12-30-2009, 07:12 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by LDBoblo View Post
I don't think it's competing with epub and azw. Those formats are generally for low-quality reflowable text on portable devices. This seems to just be an extension from PDF, which is essentially fixed format. Not bad in terms of quality, but not so hot for small screens. Perhaps that's what the TTS is for (one article did say there was cooperation with Nokia).
Low quality ?
I have a pretty fine ePub from o'reilly, it don't pale against it's pdf equivalant. And is way more readeable on my 5".
ePub allows a lot, when properly used.

PDF is good for what it was meant for (ie fixed source for printing or display), but is crap as an ebook format.
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