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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 4637736" data-attributes="member: 13892">Um. . . another widely accessible format that readily supports production quality book printing doesn't currently exist? The most common formats for distributing hyperlinked, re-flowing, text documentation (HTML or PHP) don't even come close. As Biggus mentioned earlier, that's kind of a big deal. Most consumers who buy PDFs want their purchase to look good as well as be functional, and PDF provides both of these things (provided that a publisher takes time to use bookmarks and such). Things like HTML and PHP give you only one of those things (i.e., functionality). People don't want to pay much for something that looks like ass, especially if they have plans to print it. Some people will make that sacrifice. I don't think that the majority of consumers will. If you invent a new file format that makes possible the things that PDF does, distribute it freely across multiple platforms, and get a few dozen software providers to create programs that utlize it, then we can talk. Until then, PDF is simply the best thing going, I'm afraid.</blockquote>