Jim you can not be serious! If you are, I need a straight jacket pronto. Yout argumentation is flawed. Most people buy a device because they like the device, not necessarily the format of the files! I suppose if you were a banker you would have went down, too. As a friend of mine say 100 of millions can not err, eat shit! flies that is! regards Keith Am 07.02.2011 um 21:10 schrieb Jim Adcock:
i have no craving for confusion.
I thought you were proposing to introduce yet-another PG boutique file format -- which exactly 0% of the user devices will display.
Why do people buy EPUB devices? Because it works for them. Could PG files easily work better with EPUB devices? Yes.
Why do people buy MOBI devices? Because it works for them. Could PG files easily work better with MOBI devices? Yes.
Why do some of us put up with these difficulties? Because we are actually interested in creating books that people will actually put on their devices and actually read. If people buy EPUB devices, that's where I want to be. If people buy Kindle devices, that's where I want to be. If people buy iPads (and actually read with them as opposed to just playing Pictionary) then that's where I want to be.
And frankly the "diseases" are not as bad as some of the proposed "cures."
Are people buying reader devices designed to display txt70 ? No.
Are people buying reader devices designed to display ZML ? No.
Why not? They don't like those file formats and their limitations.
When you convince Sony, Apple, Amazon, B&N, Blackberry etc. to support ZML *then* come talk.
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