Thread: E-Books – The Bigger Problem, Part One of Three
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Old 01-06-2010, 12:53 AM   #4
WT Sharpe
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From a publishing standpoint, too, e-books are thrilling: the dirty jobs of printing and distribution fall away, replaced with an upload to the iTunes store –
iTunes has ebooks? All I see in the iTunes store are apps that allow you to buy ebooks from other vendors. But that’s a minor point. Perhaps Mr. Hammersley is envisioning the future.

As for his proposed method of using a markup language for all magazine submissions, it seems promising, but also seems to entail a whole lot more work. Certainly it would speed up the process of searching for particular items. A search for <company identifier=”APPL”>Apple</company> for example would bring up only results related to that company, while a generic search for "apple" would bring up everything from the adventures of Adam and Eve to the Beatles. I wonder, though, how much extra work this will be on the editors and proof-readers who will be dealing with texts that are stuffed with these identifiers?
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