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In today’s electronic publishing world, there are two most popular formats for the e-book market: EPUB and PDF. Let’s take a look at the comparisons between EPUB and PDF formats. Many people think it is EPUB that the standard of the eBooks industry, but from these comparisons, I want to say we can't be that absolute, PDF is still better than ePub in some angles. 1) PDF is easy to generate If you want to create an ePub file, you need to study the format structure, and you need to know HTML and CSS skills, at last, different publishing platform may have different standard for the ePub file. That's really a project. For generating a PDF, many software can help you realize one-key generation feature. For example, you want to generate a PDF file from a DOC file, you just need to use MS Word 2010 to open this file and save it as PDF. There won't be any content loss or quality damage. 2) PDF has a better performance on layout Yes ePub is flowable and can adjust to suit your screen size automatically, but when the eBook contains tables and graphics, the ePub will looks like a disaster. But for PDF you need to worry about this issue, no matter it contains how many complex tables and charts, the PDF will keep a perfect layout, definitely won't mess up. That's why nearly all the text books are created as PDF format. 3)PDF is more acceptable than ePub Although ePub is the standard format in ebooks industry, but the market dominator, Kindle, doesn't accept this kind of eBooks. While all the models of Kindle series support PDF by default. If you want to read an ePub ebook on Kindle, you have to convert ePub to PDF at first. 4)PDF is easier to read on computer If you need to read a PDF on computer, you can use Adobe Reader, Adobe Digital Editions, and Foxit Reader, which gives you enough space to make a choice. But if you want to read ePub on computer, you can only use Adobe Digital Editions.
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