ePub FAQ
Q: Is it worth getting my book converted to the ePub format?
Ebooks are a small but rapidly growing market. A Goldman Sachs report in April 2010 forecast that e-booksales, which now make up 3 percent of overall U.S. book sales, would rise to 12.8 percent by 2015.
It's attractive, because once the book has been converted, it is there on-line to earn income forever. Put another way: remember when musicians wondered whether it was worth it to convert their music to MP3?
Q: I have a pdf of my book and I have heard the iPad can display pdfs, why should I convert my book to the ePub format?
PDF is a fixed format, you can't adjust the font sizes and the text does not flow freely depending on which device you're using. In the near future people will be expecting to read their books on different devices, be that the iPad, the Kindle, the iPhone or the computer screen.
The ePub format gives people the convenience of freely flowing, adjustable text on whatever reading device they're using - not unlike how words on a web page re-flow when you resize the window.
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