Comments on: ‘Shoot Yourself in the Foot’ Department: Munseys owner on bizarre jihad against e-book standards http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/09/16/shoot-yourself-in-the-foot-department-munseys-owner-on-public-jihad-against-epub/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:04:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: nairbv http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/09/16/shoot-yourself-in-the-foot-department-munseys-owner-on-public-jihad-against-epub/#comment-668743 nairbv Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:46:33 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=7111#comment-668743 I thought it was cool that someone was working on a standardized ebook format. When I realized Adobe was the driving force behind it, I was skeptical. Then I read your article (without even reading the article you criticize) and it made me think less of epub. After looking at the epub format (nothing more than zipped html with a mess of xml tacked on to it), I'm not impressed. It seems to me like it could have been better optimized for ebook content. I thought it was cool that someone was working on a standardized ebook format. When I realized Adobe was the driving force behind it, I was skeptical. Then I read your article (without even reading the article you criticize) and it made me think less of epub.

After looking at the epub format (nothing more than zipped html with a mess of xml tacked on to it), I’m not impressed.

It seems to me like it could have been better optimized for ebook content.

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