The Tower of eBabel: Why we should raze it
NetWorker, a pseudonym for an e-book addict with highly relevant technical expertise, has written a clueful post for the eBook Community List. He shows in effect how the horrors of the Tower of eBabel are harming the e-book business. His main point is that, like it or not, formats do matter in e-bookdom. And goodness knows, there are enough to keep track of. A key sentence–about Blackmask:
Offering e-books in…seven formats will probably catch every market niche there is. But in every case some expense is involved in converting and maintaining a different formats, and it is important to be able to know whether market demand for a particular format is worth the expense required.
November 21st, 2007 at 6:49 am
[...] for some grumblings about the clear snub to .epub (and, accept it guys, you are obsessed over the Tower of eBabel). And, while we get an onslaught of marketing videos on the Amazon Site, another to be launched [...]
November 21st, 2007 at 7:03 am
[...] for some grumblings about the clear snub to .epub (and, accept it guys, you are obsessed over the Tower of eBabel). And, while we get an onslaught of marketing videos on the Amazon Site, another to be launched [...]
April 16th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
[...] them to read not only on their dedicated Reader, PDA or smartphone, but also on the PC or MAC…helping to bring down The Tower of eBabel. Digg Us and Share Us: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and [...]