Thread: Legacy formats are ticking time bomb for lost data
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Old 07-16-2007, 10:31 AM   #60
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
I have the perfect solution to the problem.....

Store the books on the server in some format HTML/XML would do) and then when someone wants to purchase a book, they specify the format and the site generates it for them. So all formats can be supported. That would work quite well and it means all formats can then be supported until they standardize.
Well, yeah. This seems so sensible, though, that it probably can't happen. The people trying to make money from custom formats wouldn't probably like this suggestion, I guess.
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