Increasingly, people are accessing information on portable devices such as PDAs, smartphones, and e-book readers like Amazon's Kindle.

When you are looking at information products that are available in different formats, what influences your decision to buy? Are you looking for specific formats? Is function more important than format? What value advantage would you gain from reading a standard on a portable advice that you not be able to get from another format?

Looking outside your own experience, what types of devices do you see your colleagues using? And finally, what electronic formats would you like IEEE to use to sell its downloadable standards?