Imagine youre me the editor receiving your manuscript. I need to read it. I can either do that sitting at my desk or more likely on a Kindle on the bus home from work. Actually what I personally will probably do is to pop it on the ereader app on my phone and read it in the format I prefer; which involves Gill Sans among other things and ragged-right setting which you may well not have chosen yourself. A PDF is a pain in the arse. If you formatted the PDF for A4 it will be tiny on my phone screen. I will need to pinch and zoom multiple times per page. It going to impair my enjoyment of your book which will let remember eventually reach the consumer equivalent of me as an EPUB or MOBI file. You will note that almost nobody buys or sells PDF versions of ebooks for exactly the reason that theyre unwieldy and have narrow use cases. If people are reading at their desks they at least italic want the option to be able to change the font the line spacing the setting to something they prefer. So what I want please is a Microsoft Word file. I can send it to my Kindle via Amazon Personal Documents service - this is how most editors I know keep on top of their reading. Or I can convert it to EPUB in Calibre - a two-click process - and email it to my phone (which is how I like it.) What I have absolutely no interest in doing is trying to somehow steal your book. This would be the world dumbest crime. You send me a brilliant book You sue me for breach of copyright and can easily prove authorship Or if Im slightly more cunning You send me a brilliant book You sue me for breach of copyright and can easily prove authorship especially as the person I got to ghost it is yet another obvious witness against me Just send me a Word doc please and stop worrying about people stealing your book. It doesn happen.