Pros and cons of PDF ebooks

- [Instructor] Can a PDF be an ebook?…You know, you ask any professional ebook developer/designer,…and they will resoundingly say no, PDFs are not ebooks.…Only reflowable formats, and maybe,…reluctantly, fixed layout or iBooks are true ebooks.…But you ask any author, or small publisher,…and a lot of them will say sure.…Yeah, you can make a PDF into an ebook.…It's a file format that can be read on any digital device.…It's not reflowable, but it's really easy…for any reader to open it and read it.…

And it's a digital file that can be a book.…So in the interest of completeness for this title,…I decided to include a chapter…about creating PDF ebooks anyway.…Let's look at the pros and cons.…PDF ebooks, yes or no?…In the yes camp, they are so easy to create.…Basically any program on Mac or Windows can export to PDF.…Some with more features than others,…like inDesign and QuarkXpress have…lots of things that you can include in a PDF.…But even Word, you can automatically make bookmarks,…for example, to help readers navigate your PDF ebook.…