let me fill you in on my up-and-coming timetable, ok? *** sometime after the first of the year, i will be releasing a software tool to the public. i have decided it is time. the tool is aimed at writers who wanna self-publish... it will help them convert the book they have written -- and formatted as a z.m.l. file -- into a variety of output formats, including .pdf and .html to start off. .epub and .mobi/kindle are the next likely targets... the tool lets them control various conversion aspects, such as font, fontsize, leading, margins, and so on... *** but of course readers can use this converter-tool too. providing that they possess the digital text for a book, they'll be able to convert that book to various outputs. this means they'll be able to _customize_ the output to their own personal preferences, as to the font, fontsize, colors, margins, leading, justification, pagesize, etc. they'll be able to do this with project gutenberg e-texts. so it doesn't really matter what kind of output that p.g. offers, because your readers will be able to use my tool to customize their own output to their own preferences. but hey, knock yourselves out, ok?

http://jaguarps.com

-bowerbird p.s. i also wrote up a piece a while back discussing how project gutenberg should go about selling on amazon... but instead of sharing it here, now, and having greg tell all of us sometime down the line how it was all his idea, i'm gonna post it somewhere, and point to it later, when i can say "i would have told you so, but you never asked, but these are all of the things i think you did incorrectly." we'll see how much of it greg can come up with when he doesn't get the benefit of some hints in advance from me. (not that greg, or any of the people over at d.p., have been smart enough to use my ideas as i've presented them; they always wanted to introduce their own ripples, which were inevitably something that would cause the thing to misfire. but let's see how well they can do without _any_ scaffolding.)