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Originally Posted by ondabeach
Thanks to the ePUB format, which IS going to completely dominate our industry in the VERY near future ,the news is all good for the avid reader.... and the Author.... which are the only two groups that matter at all.
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The ePub format will not dominate until there are good, simple, free, end-user programs that can create customized epubs. MP3 became dominant because "rip your own MP3s from disc, with your choice of compressions, and tweak the sound levels as much as you care to" was easy to arrange.
There aren't a wide selection of epub creation programs. The ones that do exist either do very basic conversions, or require extensive technical knowledge to manage. There's no option for "make the 14pt bold text into chapter headers;" it's either got to be done manually (BookDesigner) or through CSS (Calibre).
Until I can convert my own files to ePub as easily as I can to PDF, I'm not much interested in ePub books.
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The future is DRM free ePUBS, so if your device, software or personal library isn't geared toward DRM free ePUBS then you are barking up the wrong tree. Get with the program, smell the roses etc.
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Fascinating. Do you intend to ride this wave of the future by insulting the people who are happy with their previous choices?
You are, of course, welcome to think that anyone who reads ebooks on a 4-year-old PDA, or an Ebookwise, is an anachronistic throwback to the digital stone age. But that doesn't make it less insulting or hostile, and saying so is a nice way to convince your potential audience that you're too close-minded to bother with... if you think anyone who prefers a different filetype is Doing It Wrong, you're not going to get a lot of support here.
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Steve Jordan is a perfect example of a forward thinking Author, he sells his books direct to the public for $2.50, no publisher, no DRM no being locked in to a particular piece of hardware or software.
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Steve Jordan doesn't try to claim that anyone not using ePub is going to be left in the dust.