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September 28th, 2004

The semantic Web: One more reminder of how primitive e-books are

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Web creator Tim Berners-Lee, in an interview with Technology Review, explains the concept of the semantic Web. The article is yet another reminder of how primitive e-books are compared to the future and even the present Web. As long as publishers and software vendors have the ‘tude of “every book is an island,” the medium will never reach its full potenital. Needless to say, an OpenReaderish approach would help.

Related: Needed: An HTML-universal standard for e-books.

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