An eBook Publishers Dilemma: Should I Use PDF or Exe Format?

 31 December 18:00   An eBook Administrator s Dilemma: Should I Use PDF or Exe Format?

     If you address and broadcast eBook s, eventually or after you will apparently be faced with a bind - should you make your eBook s as .exe files or .pdf files?

     PDF , which stands for Carriageable Certificate Format, is the book addendum for files created with Adobe Acrobat.

    Exe, which stands for executable , is the addendum for files created by eBook compilers.

     PDF is broadly advised to be the industry accepted for eBook publishing, and for acceptable reason. Actuality are some of the advantages of PDF files over exe files:

    
1. With alotof eBook compilers you accept to set up anniversary page of your eBook as a separate web page. With Adobe Acrobat you can use a individual MS Chat book as the antecedent document.
   
       
2. PDF files automatically amount anniversary page - exe files don t.
   
       
3. PDF files are actual simple to adapt - you can admit pages, alter pages and annul pages (and the page calculation is automatically adjusted).
   
       
4. Printing from a PDF book is abundant easier than press from an .exe file.
   
       
5. The bookmark cavalcade on the larboard ancillary of a PDF book makes naviagtion actual simple - abundant easier than in an exe file.
   
       
6. PDF files abbreviate bigger than exe files, so you end up with a smaller, added acquiescent file.
   
       
7. It s around absurd to address a virus through a PDF book - exe files are affected to virus manual and can become besmirched during download.
   
       
8. Finally, by using PDF you automatically aggrandize your abeyant bazaar because PDF files can be apprehend on both a PC and a Mac (exe files can alone be apprehend on a PC). Over 8 percent of the online citizenry in the U.S. are currently Mac users ( nielsen-netratings.com ) - not a huge access in your market, but about significant.

    But exe files do accept some advantages over PDF files, and conceivably the alotof important of these is amount - alotof eBook compilers are a atom of the amount of Adobe Acrobat.

    Another advantage of exe files over PDF is the rebranding feature. The afterward eBook compilers all accept a congenital rebranding function:

• ebookcompiler.com/
• ebookgenerator.com/
• ebookedit.com/
• ebookpaper.com/

    If you use chargeless eBook s as a viral business tool, rebranding is the key to success, because humans are abundant added acceptable to advance your chargeless eBook if they can adapt it with their own associate links.

    (c) 2002 by Michael Southon