The point of the change is to classify the ebook (and by that I mean any non-print / or any electronic book) projects separately from the print books.
Indeed, but why? Because on our Spotlights they sit whereever they land.
.pdf was one the first ebook formats
Not really. It was a cross-platform readable page file for IBM clones and Macs, and the ocasional Sun system.
and many beleive it should be the actual industry standard.
No they don't a PDF file is nothing like, say, an epub file. Contraptions like many cellphones do not have the ram to hold a PDF.
epub is looking like it will become the more common format - but any electronic format is a TRUE ebook.
Well, no it is not. Have you created a file for an 'true' e-book? If you have you will then realise how different they are. epub may become the default only for a while though.
I doubt anyone would argue that Kindle books aren't TRUE ebooks -
Who was saying that then? But they are not PDFs ...
they aren't epub they are a proprietary format owned by Amazon that is based on the old .mobi format. Sony uses it's own ebook format also as do several other ereaders.
Indeed, and?
Let's not turn into the same type of people who argued that paperbacks weren't real books because they weren't hard covers.
Huh? We are talking specifics here, not generalisations. Many e-readers cannot read all types of e-book files. Many cannot read PDFs. Only files that can be read on e-readers built only as e-readers, made only to read books on are 'true' e-books.
