Because some people on MR seemed to find my last e-book-related blog post interesting, I figured I'd go ahead and post here myself that I have a new one up. Discusses some technical issues surrounding the tension between book-creator and book-reader control of formatting and how this interacts with Adobe's de facto monopoly of the EPUB format.
http://platypope.org/blog/2009/7/2/c...-epub-monopoly