From: gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org [mailto:gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org] On Behalf Of Bowerbird@aol.com Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 3:31 PM To: gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org; bowerbird@aol.com Subject: [gutvol-d] Books in Browsers Conference at Internet Archive alex said;
The event is being livestreamed at http://toc.oreilly.com You may find this interesting.
if anyone finds anything from this conference interesting -- anything at all, _anything_, even _mildly_ interesting -- do please let us know what it is, and why it's interesting...
OK, well, what I found interesting there (after spending three minutes on it) is that Oreilly has the technology to send attractive, correctly formatting e-books out to customer from apparently a single mother source in three different distribution formats: PDF, ePUB and MOBI. And all three formats worked, and there were not the typical PG "scrambled eggs" formatting problems, and all three had sensible choices of paragraph formatting - even though they differed in how they formatting paragraphs. All three formats were a pleasure to read as far as the formatting was concerned. [The actual content sucked, but that is another matter.] Also, Open Book Alliance certainly gets it right, here: http://www.openbookalliance.org/2011/12/prying-open-google%E2%80%99s-closed- books/