Re: microsoft lit ebook format-value?

We maintain availability on a bunch of our older books books via MS.LIT but
we stopped doing new conversions a while ago. Very little sales activity in
the format. No company support as Michael notes.

John
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On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:

>   While LIT is still viable as a format per se, the chance of MS providing
> continuing support and pushing it as a format for the next few years is
> doubtful. On the developer side of things, LIT was unofficially
> abandoned by MS support over five years ago when promised tools for
> developers never materialized. The release of Windows Presentation
> Foundation with fixed documents and flow documents put the final nails in
> the coffin. Why bother with a closed publishing format when you can present
> a document that is paginated ebook-style in a desktop application (WPF) or
> embedded in a webpage (SilverLight)?
>
> -Michael
>
> http://www.ficsprout.com/
>
>  
>


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