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Old 04-05-2010, 06:16 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by MarcusStringer View Post
I didn't mean for this to turn into a argument about Letter spacing... To be honest. I'm hoping with the introduction of the iPad that PDFs will take over .epub as the new standard.
Not a chance.

Not everyone is going to read on a screen big enough to display letter-sized pages well, and that's what gets in the way of PDFs being the industry-standard for ebooks. Pocket-sized ebook readers, between Blackberry/PDA size and 6" e-ink screens, can't handle magazine-page-sized PDFs well.

What'll take over is whoever manages to make a markup-based format (which might be ePub) that displays with elaborate layout options if you've got the screen real estate, and simple linear layout if you don't.
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