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Originally Posted by alex_d
Lastly, I still say hoping that 90% of people won't generate their own content is just saying that you don't think it's worth generating (and, by extension, worth implementing). I say start thinking about how you could use clustering to distribute the workload and add enough features that 90% of people will _want custom versions of books.
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We're using FreeBSD and Lighttpd for these reasons: with this OS and lighttpd instead of a really slow Apache web server, it'll be much easier to do load balancing. We're already using different processes for the the part generating books and the rest of the website. As soon as we can make enough money out of the website to buy new servers, we'll add them to the load balancing system, in order to make the whole experience much more smoother, and increase the possibilities on the website.
The bigger our cluster will be, the more we'll add functionalities that require this.
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Originally Posted by Stingo
If your site is only using PDF I for one will probably not download from it. PDF is simply not versatile enough on the Sony Reader. Two levels of magnification and no reflowing just does not cut it for my needs. Unfortunately, although it is not my preferred choice, LRF and RTF are the only to reasonable choices on this device at this time. Good luck.
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RTF can't handle hyperlinks and table of contents, and we're also planning on having tech books for example or books in many different languages. LaTeX + PDF can handle this.
As for LRF, we might use it later on, from what I've seen on the Connect Store, quite a few books look like they got formatted in LaTeX and then transformed into LRF, so I wonder how Sony or the publishers create LRF files. If we find a way to make good looking LRF files (embedded fonts, table of contents, footnotes...) we'll do it. We're using a database separated into chapters/sections etc... for this single reason: this way we can add support for anything in the future.