RE: e books and copyright
- From: "Harry Plantinga" <hplantin@[redacted]>
- Subject: RE: e books and copyright
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:12:27 -0500
Well, it depends on the tools companies provide.
I have a program to convert documents in my markup language
to OEB. Then I can use "ReaderWorks" to create a Microsoft
Reader edition of a book easily -- basically open the OEB
file and save the MS Reader file. (I wish I could automate
that last step! any ideas?)
-Harry Plantinga
> 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.