Heh, yeah, I think the two are related too, Liviu_5. But a big part of the ebabel problem and the bankruptcies of various e-book concerns has had a lot to do with publisher/author disinterest/hostility. If all the publishers had jumped on the RocketBook at the beginning like ants on watermelon at a Sunday School picnic, the e-book landscape might be very different.
Today, we have .epub looking like it might be ready to be the omni-lingual needed to break ebabel, and the pubs reportedly scrambling to get e-rights to their backlists. Well, it could mean nothing at all, and this current installment of e-book interest could become just that: the
current installment. But it also could mean very good things.
Call me optimistic.