On Wed, February 2, 2011 2:20 pm, Jim Adcock wrote:
Can someone please add the download counts for PDF format files to this location, so that BB can see how compelling the actual PG customer base finds his rhetoric?
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/pretty-pictures
If you want to put PDF up on PG BB, who is stopping you? Certainly not me.
I've been playing around with my local library's connection to Overdrive's e-book lending program recently. One of the things I have found fascinating is that for books that are available in both ePub and PDF formats when a book has a waiting list for the ePub version the PDF version is immediately available 90% of the time. In one specific case I was number 37 on the waiting list for ePub, but the PDF version was available for immediate checkout. I would guess that in the world at large PDF is even less popular than Impoverished Text Format. An automated process that can take a master format and produce PDF has, I suppose, a modicum of interest, but it has virtually no bearing on the issue of what the master format should be, except to the extent that the master format must be capable of retaining all the information required to produce a PDF file (on which count, PG's ITF fails).