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Duration: 120 minutes

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Interesting discussion on the O’Reilly website. And a good laugh for those obsessed with fonts.

Yes, even those with a lot of practical experience with publishing ebooks agree that you cannot escape PDF. It’s become the digital equivalent of paper on all sorts of mobile devices. With Sony including PDF on the list of formats supported by their readers device, why fight PDF? Embrace it.

I just published the first edition of “Publishing eBooks for the iPhone and iPod Touch, 1st ed.”, an introduction to publishing ebooks for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s a short ebook that gives you the basic facts and numbers. And it’s a good example of how an ebook on an iPhone can look like. It’s only 1.99 USD.

Apple has sold over 4 million iPhones. The number of iPod Touch devices sold is not known, but if we think of a number around 2 million we should not be far off the mark. That’s 6 million devices capable of downloading, displaying, and sharing ebooks in the PDF format. But that’s not all. Apple has announced its plans to sell 10 million iPhones in 2008. Add to that a very conservative estimate of 4 million iPod Touch devices and we are talking about a market of approximately 14 million devices. None of those devices are more than a year old. That’s a huge market waiting for content.