PDF Editions: Still A Hot Button Issue

Using PDFs as a content presentation and delivery vehicle is still a hot button issue, and has cropped up in a few different threads online:

PDF vs. HTML: VC Fred Wilson reacts to some criticism about how PDF are publisher solution rather than reader-friendly. “I don’t think its really about PDF vs. HTML. It’s when is HTML best and when is PDF best?”

DesignThis: Fred reacted to this post by Jeff Jarvis. “Some folks still want control, so they produce PDFs. And the public still rejects them.”

Woeful Circulations for Digital Editions: Vin Crosbie rounds up some woeful circulation figures for digital edition newspapers in U.S. “With one exception, none of those newspapers have been able to signup a number of digital edition subscribers equal to one-tenths of one percent of that newspaper’s print circulation.” He follows it up with another post: “Retailed digital editions of newspapers aren’t destined to failure, but will fail until those technologies are in the hands of consumers.”

Digital editions: A distraction, or something with a future?: An actual practitioner in the online newspaper field responds: “I think digital editions, for newspapers at least, are all about publishers’ love for their own medium, not consumers’ interests.”

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