[davidrothman]

Hi, Bob. Thanks for that classy pointer to the TeleRead item. Between the blog and a library project and a million of other things, I'm stretched thin, but I still have on tap an explanation for MobileRead folks of why the OpenReader standard is necessary. In effect it's a turbocharged version of the OEBPS spec--the kind of thing that the IDPF would have produced by now if its leaders hadn't been so resistant to a consumer-level format. The creation of the OpenReader Consortium, led by Jon Noring, an experienced IDPF standards setter, forced the IDPF to do what it had been avoiding. Thanks. David (who's among the ringleaders with OpenReader)