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Old 10-03-2007, 10:04 PM   #30
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steve said:
> multiple formats has meant a fractured market

they can -- and they will -- "unfracture" that market any time they want.
for now, they'd rather leave it broken. makes it easier to point fingers...


> Witness the emergence of two major partnerships
> once ePub was created and endorsed.

who? let's come back and look in a year and see if they made a difference.


> And I don't think ePub serves to "raise the bar" on the small publishers,
> because it's a format that anyone can create, without fancy software
> or hacks, and any reader can be trained to use (because it's XHTML).

you think xhtml can be created by "anyone"?

writers don't want to code xhtml. they want to write. and re-write.
and then re-write some more. but they don't want to code xhtml...

i mean, the publishing companies will try to force them to do coding
if they want to self-publish. because then writers won't self-publish.

luckily, the light-markup revolution will give them a simple alternative.

i mean, _you_ can use xhtml if you want. nobody is stopping you.
but none of the writers that i know will wanna go down that road...

-bowerbird
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