On 02/11/2012 07:47 AM, James Knott wrote:
webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:
It seems that different e-readers prefer different text formats, like
epub. They did this for "business i.e. money/profit" reasons.
People had to buy their formatted documents.
Have you used an ereader? I have read both PDF and epub on mine and
epub is much better. I can also read epub on my smart phone, where
the screen is so small as to make it virtually useless for PDF. As
for "business", books I download from the library are often available
in both epub and PDF. Also, O'Reilly books are generally available in
several formats and you can download whatevers ones you want,
including all, if you're so inclined.
I do not have a tablet computer or a smart phone with a screen large
enough to read "books".
I have seen PDF books defined as paperback size of pages. Places like
Lulu.com publish books with print on demand service. They have
templates that are for the popular book sizes. If I was going to create
an e-book, I would use one of those templates to make a book the
"physical" screen size of a paperback book. Actually I prefer to buy
physical books in that size, since it is easier for me to read that size
of book over the "standard" hardcover books.
So, I would do the same for any e-book I would create.
Yes, publishers are not looking at [or doing it now] several file
formats for their e-books. I once had a lot of PDF technical books.
Easy to get, but hard to use, or at least for me. I prefer to use page
marking papers and a highlighter marker to mark the book pages that are
what I need. I do not have that option for an e-book. One thing I do
like for the PDF books is to be able to copy text [code mostly] from the
PDF documents and use that copied text within my documents or programming.
So, to each his own. But if you are going to create an e-book with
fixed page sizes and fonts, you must define the page size for the best
use on the screen size it is targeted for.
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