On 12/14/2012 07:11 AM, James Adcock wrote:
Figures are worthless without a detailed description of the methodology used to derive them.
Doesn't mean that both PW and PG statistics couldn't be right -- but even you acknowledge that it seems likely that fewer PG users actually read HTML downloads rather than just glance at them to preview whether or not an epub or mobi is worth downloading.
But it is quite improbable that anybody would download the epub to preview the Kindle.
The epub downloads from PG are nearly twice the mobi downloads.
Could that be because the mobis you generate are still generally more defective than the epubs?
The KF8 format is quite as capable as epub, in fact it *is* epub, only wrapped in a palm database instead of a zip file. The Kindle reader is also quite capable, in fact it is Adobe DE branded as Kindle. In fact Amazon could have switched to epub instead of botching KF8, but chose to be deliberatley incompatible to the rest of us. It could also be that Kindle files are twice the size as epubs, or that is is practically impossible to get free files on the Kindle Fire. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org