Quote:
Originally Posted by DMcCunney
And there is no real reason to want to eliminate it. It does do its job well.
|
It does its job well, no doubt about it.
The only thing that I do not like about InDesign is the penalty associated with typo fixes and such. You effectively have to go through the whole production chain, the effort is equivalent to (pbook) reprint. That's normal for pbooks and their business model, ebooks consumption patterns and expectations are more akin to software (where updates/upgrades are the norm, and it pays off to download the latest version of the MR book immediately before the reading/consumption).
Quote:
Originally Posted by DMcCunney
*sigh*
O'Reilly isn't merely tech savvy. They are techs, publishing tech books for techs. No surprise they'd eat thier own dog food, so to speak.
|
And being tech myself, I am dead wrong to equate them to the rest of publishing industry. Got it. Guilty as charged.
I still believe that publishing industry is facing a very turbulent times. Price wars, pressure to epublish for the sake of not appearing backward and "loosing face" in front of authors, the danger that a big name (say, Dan Brown?) might get pissed off to go and try "Lulu samizdat" route (and, who knows, maybe even succeed)...
They have to move, not because I am tech and would like them to adopt DocBook, but for their own sake, to survive the transition.
And if there is a single publishing house that I do want to survive, it is Baen. The sheer guts to experiment with the new medium and their business model are enough to awe me and to earn my good will.