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Old 08-01-2007, 07:57 AM   #48
Steven Lyle Jordan
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Can you tell me one ebook format that isnt closed?
ePub. HTML with CSS files, ASCII files, all in a zipped package. If you can unzip it, you can read it on anything that can read HTML. Not limited to any piece of hardware (like a Palm). Even if styles and metadata are not supported, you can read the HTML. That's about as open as it gets.

Jack B, I like your thinking about Hardback to paperback to e-book. The prices for e-books still sound high (as do the paperbacks... I'll never pay $15 for a paperback!), and I think the time frame between paperback and e-book will be shorter, or maybe released concurrently with paperback... after all, both are considered the lesser version of the "real" book, the big hardback.
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