Thread: Screwed by Tor again...
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Old 08-22-2008, 09:37 AM   #129
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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce View Post
If Baen has to do the conversion to various formats, what are they converting FROM? I would guess, in most cases, Adobe InDesign and/or MS-WORD. Man, we need an e-book standard.
Actually, there is one many publishers use in some fashion -- OEBPS 1.2. You know the HTML versions of the freebies Tor was handing out? Those were OEBPS 1.2 books with the main HTML file re-named (making the OPF metadata incorrect) and the CSS made all wacky (to optimize for on-screen vs. on-page/device reading). Most commercial e-book conversion tools accept OEPBS 1.x as an input format or even their preferred/primary input format.

So I have some difficulty seeing what the technical difficulties would be for them on that end of things.

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel View Post
EPUB !! we need EPUB !!! go EPUB !!! everybody make EPUB !!!!!! EPUB ftw !!!
Take OEBPS 1.x, split it into 2 standards, update to 2.0 (while keeping the content mostly the same), and add a third standard (OCF, for how you do the ZIP file containing) -- and you get EPUB! Hooray!
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