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Bob,
Thank you for the generous post. I agree with yours and others comments that we do have a ways to go and many challenges to face from both industry and consumer perspectives. However, the momentum behind EPUB that we have seen over the past year to a year and a half is truly remarkable. Remember that the final EPUB specification was approved only about 2 years ago and there are literally hundreds of thousands of EPUB titles in the marketplace now for customers to choose from and enjoy.
I will also mention that there were a few essential people in the early technical working groups at the IDPF that deserve praise including: Garth Conboy, John Rivlin and Brady Duga at eBook Technologies Inc.; Ric Wright, Peter Sorotokin and Bill McCoy at Adobe; Markus Gylling and George Kerscher at the DAISY Consortium and Ben Trafford, an Invited Expert in the group. There were others involved, but these people specifically deserve mention and praise.
Thanks,
Nick Bogaty
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