Thread: Project Gutenberg going Mobi?
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Old 04-01-2009, 05:36 PM   #82
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Originally Posted by mikecook View Post
But wouldn't the adoption of eBooks be expediated if the books actually looked bloody nice? Let's face it, the core PG format, being of Plain Vanilla ASCII, does not give nice looking books. Readable yes, nice...not a chance.

Please note, the content of my post was about Project Gutenberg, not the publishing industry.
But the point made by kovidgoyal was actuallt the reasoning that Michael Hart used when he decided to use ordinary text format for project Gutenberg.
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