Re: Thanks for your help

From: "Lee Passey"
> morganmandel wrote:
>>  
>> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> Thanks all for your help about converting to ebooks. Looks like I have 
>> my work cut out for me over the weekend to get Killer Career out there 
>> in more formats.
>> 
>> It would be so nice if they all had the same one. Maybe some day....

> 
> Actually, we're 90% of the way there already. The answer is HTML.
> 
> The problems with HTML are all perceived rather than real. The biggest 
> problem is that too many people believe that HTML files are only 
> appropriate for use in a web browser, like Firefox, Safari or Internet 
> Exploder.
> 
> Not true.
> 
> There are several User Agents (the technical term) on the market today 
> in addition to web browsers which display HTML files, including the Sony 
> reader, µBook (www.gowerpoint.com), and, believe it or not, the 
> Mobipocket reader. Those applications which are geared specifically to 
> reading e-books in HTML format also handle details such as pagination 
> and navigation.
> 
> What many people do not realize is that most of the other popular e-book 
> formats in the marketplace are just encapsulations of HTML. 
[great snipping]
Perhaps in the next week or two I'll try to write a short essay on 
> how to use Word to create HTML e-books.
> 
> Adobe Pagemaker is even worse than Word. Avoid it altogether.
> 
> Amaya (http://www.w3.org/Amaya/) has always shown great promise as an 
> HTML editor, but I've never felt comfortable using it. It may be a 
> personal thing, so you should probably check it out.
> 

Lee,

Thank you for a most informative and valuable description. Though I lack the $300 fee to offer ;-), can I ask two questions.

First, how close is rtf to html [it does remove the need to know html at all, but I'm not certain technically of its closeness]?

Second, would you like to put this up somewhere [in html naturally] so I - and others - can recommend it where appropriate?

Joseph




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