Re: Re: Possible conference for on-line book publishing?
- From: "richard seltzer" <seltzer@[redacted]>
- Subject: Re: Re: Possible conference for on-line book publishing?
- Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 12:11:04 -0500
Good idea.
I just hope that someone does it, and gets the major book distributors to
buy-in.
Best wishes.
Richard
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Pomery" <dpomery@[redacted]>
To: "Book People" <spok+bookpeople@[redacted]>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: [BP] Re: Possible conference for on-line book publishing?
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, richard seltzer wrote:
>Combine those factors and the costs for a small ebook publisher could be
>enormous -- and it's all unnecessary. A simple program could assign numbers
>automatically, instantly, for practically nothing.
Hm. A central e-text versioning resource? Perhaps a program that MD5sums
non-whitespace text, and IDs the book based on that?