On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Jim Adcock wrote:
I don't think we have done any "pick and choose" "among vendors" or "formats."
I would certainly disagree with this "history." When I first approached PG several years ago about how I could support the Kindle using the MOBI file format I was told to go stuff it because PG have chosen to support this cool format called "Plucker."
There are certainly a lot of "nay sayers" on this list, who will say nay to just about any new format proposal, but they don't really run everything, and if you send a new format to Greg Newby or myself, we'll give it a try at least 99% of the time.
And then more recently PG supported "ePub" completely including table of contents -- where ePub commonly *does not* follow the standards of ODF correctly (following instead an incorrect defacto standard set up by Adobe Digital Editions) but PG did not implement table of contents correctly for Kindle even though the Kindle MOBI standard *does* correctly follow the ODF standards. So the incorrect Adobe implementation was supported but the correct Kindle implementation was not. And when I pointed this out again I was told to go stuff it.
We would be more than happy to try your particular flavor of ePub, etc., just send them in.
Most recently PG seems to be getting this stuff correct on Kindle, but only after a couple years delay.
When the naysayers lose, they still often manage to delay things. . . . Greg and I are all for running anything new up the flagpole to see it work, or not, but have to send it to us, sometimes we'll even find you help. However, as with many such proposals, if nothing is sent in, nothing out. mh
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