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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PeterFitz" data-source="post: 2273112" data-attributes="member: 4950">I'd pay up to 50% of the printed product price, but no more. I have no objection to people making money from their hard work, but I don't expect to be gouged for a product that is substantially cheaper to produce than a physical book.As far as the extra features PDF is supposed to provide over a printed book, to me the only worthwhile ones are a decent hyperlinked index and ToC. Both of those things can be created pretty much automatically from any worthwhile page layout programme, and I'm certainly not going to pay extra for them when they cost so little effort to create (I'm talking literally a matter of minutes for most layout progs). Internal hyperlinking is handy, but seldom essential if the index and ToC are up to scratch.What infuriates me about PDF vendors is that they almost invariably produce pages that are clearly meant to be viewed from printed material; that is, multi-column portrait format, which is really irritating to read on-screen. It's one thing to provide a PDF as a document distribution format for printing, but if to get the best out of a PDF's read/search/hyperlink capabilities it should be formatted for use on-screen. It's a piece of cake these days to create multiple formats for the same content, but it's very seldom that the customers get any choice about what they're buying -- almost always you're stuck with a duplicate of file intended for print, and I'm not sure whether it's because of laziness or ignorance on the part of the author/vendor. What a waste of potential of an excellent electronic document format.Rant over, I guess.</blockquote>

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