Comments on: EPub’s tall shortcoming: How annotation needs linking and why we don’t have It http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/03/29/epubs-tall-shortcoming-how-annotation-needs-linking-and-why-we-dont-have-it/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:09:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Aaron S. Miller, CTO of BookGlutton, a Web-based community of readers http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/03/29/epubs-tall-shortcoming-how-annotation-needs-linking-and-why-we-dont-have-it/#comment-749715 Aaron S. Miller, CTO of BookGlutton, a Web-based community of readers Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:10:46 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/03/29/epubs-tall-shortcoming-how-annotation-needs-linking-and-why-we-dont-have-it/#comment-749715 Tamas, Re: Look what it did to the record industry... The myth of ruin is perpetuated all over the place, most recently in the times uk where the bell tolls for the book industry: Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with a Pearl Earring (they made a movie out of that, must be good): “For a while it will be great for readers because they will pay less and less but in the long run it’s going to ruin the information. People will stop writing. There’s a lot of ‘wait and see what the technology brings’ but the trouble is if you wait and see too long then it’s gone. That’s what happened to the music industry.” [from: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3648813.ece ] The idea that open standards will bring about ruin is a myth. MP3 did not bring down the record industry, the record industry adapted. Writers will not stop writing, no matter what happens. Maybe writers who only do it for a profit will stop writing, but only because others who do it for free do it better. The same can be said for the record industry. Musicians will continue to distribute songs, with or without the labels. From an artist's perspective, what's the difference between CDbaby and Warner? One takes a fragment, one takes most of it. Tamas, Re: Look what it did to the record industry…

The myth of ruin is perpetuated all over the place, most recently in the times uk where the bell tolls for the book industry:

Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with a Pearl Earring (they made a movie out of that, must be good):
“For a while it will be great for readers because they will pay less and less but in the long run it’s going to ruin the information. People will stop writing. There’s a lot of ‘wait and see what the technology brings’ but the trouble is if you wait and see too long then it’s gone. That’s what happened to the music industry.”

[from: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3648813.ece
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The idea that open standards will bring about ruin is a myth. MP3 did not bring down the record industry, the record industry adapted. Writers will not stop writing, no matter what happens. Maybe writers who only do it for a profit will stop writing, but only because others who do it for free do it better. The same can be said for the record industry. Musicians will continue to distribute songs, with or without the labels. From an artist’s perspective, what’s the difference between CDbaby and Warner? One takes a fragment, one takes most of it.

]]> By: Aaron S. Miller, CTO of BookGlutton, a Web-based community of readers http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/03/29/epubs-tall-shortcoming-how-annotation-needs-linking-and-why-we-dont-have-it/#comment-748085 Aaron S. Miller, CTO of BookGlutton, a Web-based community of readers Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:35:55 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/03/29/epubs-tall-shortcoming-how-annotation-needs-linking-and-why-we-dont-have-it/#comment-748085 No URI scheme is mentioned either. See blog.bookglutton.com for a discussion of this. An isbn: scheme hadn't occurred to me, because I presumed that a lot of books would not carry one (Creative Commons, Public Domain, Personal Copyright or Self-Published, etc.) Also, from what I understand, there's been some disagreement on whether it would be better to have an open, filesystem-based scheme or a managed, identifier-based scheme (again, see BG blog for clarification of this distinction). If people like the idea of an open scheme, then maybe there's no need for a scheme other than http:, otherwise, there is. No URI scheme is mentioned either. See blog.bookglutton.com for a discussion of this. An isbn: scheme hadn’t occurred to me, because I presumed that a lot of books would not carry one (Creative Commons, Public Domain, Personal Copyright or Self-Published, etc.) Also, from what I understand, there’s been some disagreement on whether it would be better to have an open, filesystem-based scheme or a managed, identifier-based scheme (again, see BG blog for clarification of this distinction). If people like the idea of an open scheme, then maybe there’s no need for a scheme other than http:, otherwise, there is.

]]> By: Tamas Simon http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/03/29/epubs-tall-shortcoming-how-annotation-needs-linking-and-why-we-dont-have-it/#comment-747421 Tamas Simon Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:17:31 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/03/29/epubs-tall-shortcoming-how-annotation-needs-linking-and-why-we-dont-have-it/#comment-747421 what about a URI scheme for books something like isbn://ISBN_NUMBER_HERE/blahblah/blahblah ...or am I reinventing something that was already said by the specs? re:MP3-ish format Look what it did to the record industry... Why would publishers be interested in digging their own grave? what about a URI scheme for books
something like isbn://ISBN_NUMBER_HERE/blahblah/blahblah

…or am I reinventing something that was already said by the specs?

re:MP3-ish format
Look what it did to the record industry…
Why would publishers be interested in digging their own grave?

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