Comments on: O’Reilly adds new ebook formats - including EPUB http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/07/15/oreilly-adds-new-ebook-formats-including-epub/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:04:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Robert Nagle http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/07/15/oreilly-adds-new-ebook-formats-including-epub/#comment-851860 Robert Nagle Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:05:53 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=11553#comment-851860 Totally irrelevant, but that animated gif that illustrates this post scared the daylights out of me. Totally irrelevant, but that animated gif that illustrates this post scared the daylights out of me.

]]> By: Greg Schofield http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/07/15/oreilly-adds-new-ebook-formats-including-epub/#comment-851208 Greg Schofield Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:01:37 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=11553#comment-851208 This is truly exceptionally good news and especially from such a central publisher. E-book/epub, manuals and reference books coupled with a e-ink reader makes a new market - replacing kilos and huge bulk, at least in the computer field, fulfils a direct and desperate need. The software still needs improvement, especially bookmarking, but we are well underway. We need a simple way of linking different e-books together (excerpt gathering would be especially useful to technical readers, eg gathering reference tables together). But even as things stand I can see my self buying more O'Reilly books, simply because they are available in epub files (future proofed). Bundling the formats together is very smart. PDF for printing out, and mobipocket for temporary benefits of the software base. That is the way to do things! This is truly exceptionally good news and especially from such a central publisher.

E-book/epub, manuals and reference books coupled with a e-ink reader makes a new market - replacing kilos and huge bulk, at least in the computer field, fulfils a direct and desperate need.

The software still needs improvement, especially bookmarking, but we are well underway. We need a simple way of linking different e-books together (excerpt gathering would be especially useful to technical readers, eg gathering reference tables together).

But even as things stand I can see my self buying more O’Reilly books, simply because they are available in epub files (future proofed).

Bundling the formats together is very smart. PDF for printing out, and mobipocket for temporary benefits of the software base. That is the way to do things!

]]> By: Mike Cane http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/07/15/oreilly-adds-new-ebook-formats-including-epub/#comment-851121 Mike Cane Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:14:27 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=11553#comment-851121 See, this publisher understands something the others don't: they are offering WORDS for MONEY, not FILE FORMATS for money. Good for them. I hope other publishers see the sense of this. See, this publisher understands something the others don’t: they are offering WORDS for MONEY, not FILE FORMATS for money. Good for them. I hope other publishers see the sense of this.

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