Book People Archive

Re: e books and copyright



JMO wrote:
>
> [Moderator: One industry group that is attempting to set standards for
>  "ebook" formatting and distribution is the Open eBook Forum.
             
My reading of the OEBF documentation is that it's a publisher to
publisher standard. It doesn't seem to be a standard for the supply of
texts to the public, but rather allows publsihers to exchange
metadata-rich manuscripts before locking into a proprietary e-book
format for public sales.

All this rather depresses me, but working in publi$hing, doesn't
surprise me.

 Stewart

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