Comments on: Baen Books now available in ePub/Stanza format

By: Yoda47

Yoda47 — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:48:32 +0000

One other note:

I see you can download .epub, or .epub zipped.

Rather redundant, no?

By: Jim Lester

Jim Lester — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:48:21 +0000

Sorry for scooping you Chris, I was busy downloading ePub version of all of my purchased books, and thought I’d share.

Paul, looks like the XML tags got left out of my quote.
Calibre is listed as the value of a contributor element. Good advertisement for Kovid, who does good work.

By: Chris Meadows

Chris Meadows — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:19:13 +0000

Yes, it does mean that. I even mentioned it a few days ago in my review of the new version of Stanza.

There’s a Stanza catalog link posted in Baen’s Bar right now, in fact. The only reason I haven’t mirrored the link here is that Arnold the webmaster doesn’t feel the catalog is quite ready yet, and the Bar is a sort of “semi-private” place. I don’t want to deluge it with a whole bunch of non-Barflies until Arnold is ready for them.

As it stands right now, you can download into Stanza books you’ve already purchased, or Free Library books, just as you can with BookShelf. What you can’t do yet is buy books through Stanza like you can from the Stanza Store. Arnold is still working on adding that.

I’ll do a story about it when it’s ready…unless some other TeleRead writer scoops me. (Darnit, I should at least have done a post about them being in ePub format, as much as I’d been asking for that. Bleah.)

By: Alan Wallcraft

Alan Wallcraft — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:01:16 +0000

Baen is also working on a Stanza catalog, which will presumably become an OpenPub catalog and therefore accessible by any ebook application.