Re: Books in Browsers Conference at Internet Archive

 

 

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Subject: [gutvol-d] Books in Browsers Conference at Internet Archive

 

alex said;
>   The event is being livestreamed at http://toc.oreilly.com
>   You may find this interesting. 

>if anyone finds anything from this conference interesting
-- anything at all, _anything_, even _mildly_ interesting --
do please let us know what it is, and why it's interesting...

 

OK, well, what I found interesting there (after spending three minutes on
it) is that Oreilly has the technology to send attractive, correctly
formatting e-books out to customer from apparently a single mother source in
three different distribution formats: PDF, ePUB and MOBI.  And all three
formats worked, and there were not the typical PG "scrambled eggs"
formatting problems, and all three had sensible choices of paragraph
formatting - even though they differed in how they formatting paragraphs.
All three formats were a pleasure to read as far as the formatting was
concerned.  [The actual content sucked, but that is another matter.]

 

Also, Open Book Alliance certainly gets it right, here:

 

http://www.openbookalliance.org/2011/12/prying-open-google%E2%80%99s-closed-
books/

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