The term "book" needs some nit-picking/clarification/discussion.
If we assume book & your pdf document are synonymous than -
With you initial view settings set the recipient will open the document as described, if they are opening the document in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader.
Their local Preference for "Restore last view settings..." does become a concern. (They should clear the option as necessary)
FaithfulHound wrote:
I should mention they do have other doc's on their site in book format so I am just very confused why they can't see mine in the same way?
View the other documents. Are they pdf? Check those documents (File > Properties) to discern what settings they have used. (Initial view also allows page scaling).
The term "book" needs some nit-picking/clarification/discussion.
"Books" on the web could mean a variety of formats.
I have a pdf book hosted this week. I spent a good deal of time creating perhaps 100 live bookmarks within the document, verified that the document opens with the Bookmarks pane viewable and navigates properly in Adobe software.
Upon providing this to the client he decides to view on a hand held device (doesn't quite now how or what viewer his device use using), send back & forth to his web guy, they decide this is great, but I don't think they ever saw the bookmarks panel I included. Additionally, one the first page I included the phrase "Best viewed with Adobe Reader/Adobe Acrobat" They asked me to remove that - they thought (correctly) that their smartphones opened the document faster.
Point being - you have NO control on how the documents will be viewed. Local settings (document application handling/default viewers) for recipients are to varied and cannot be controlled.