Your (David Graddol <david@...>) mail on Tue, 31 Aug 1999 ... IIRC it is the same in Germany: The numbers are free (if you are a firm, corporation,...
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Ben Trafford
bent@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 9:56 am
... Except that ISBNs have no guarantee to be unique identifiers for the books themselves. Publishers have developed an unfortunate tendency to re-use ISBNs,...
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Oliver Gassner
fraktal@xxx.xxx
Sep 1, 1999 11:31 am
Your (Ben Trafford <bent@...>) mail on Wed, 01 Sep 1999 ... It's the PUBLISHERS who re-use them (to save money), not the issuing agency. It's always...
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Joseph Teller
fantasyrealms@xxxxxxx...
Sep 1, 1999 1:39 pm
... Mainstream publishers don't publish much electronically at all. They are behind the technology curve in general by several years at all times. They may be...
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Joseph Teller
fantasyrealms@xxxxxxx...
Sep 1, 1999 1:39 pm
... PDF is an evolving product and offers some advantages that XML/HTML does not provide. The first of these is often the most important - you can place the ...
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Joseph Teller
fantasyrealms@xxxxxxx...
Sep 1, 1999 1:39 pm
<color><param>0000,0000,FF00</param>> Oh a little hard work bother you? ... </color>Wordperfect is hardly archaic, no more than any other word processor. It ...
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Boondock Books
mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.x...
Sep 1, 1999 1:59 pm
Joseph Teller said ... for ... give me ... less ... code ... as ... associate ... I'll second that! Micheal Segroves Publisher Boondock Books ...
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Michael S. Hart
hart@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 2:16 pm
... Gee. . .it appears that about 1/6 of all the books or courses at the U IL have CDROMS. . . . Michael ... Thanks for using eBook-List, Discussion about...
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George Pearson
George@xxxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 2:38 pm
The text books may have CD's in them, but what are the CD's used for? Are they actually used as part of the text or are they just an add on that the publisher...
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Bowerbird@xxx.xxx
Sep 1, 1999 3:16 pm
andi, the beautiful chocolate-point ragdoll cat that "adopted" my girlfriend leslie and me, passed away last night from kidney failure. i am much too sad to...
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Michael S. Hart
hart@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 3:24 pm
... Most of them I know of contain the entire text. . .but some of the older reference works are still paper. . . . ... If you can't understand the future,...
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Jan Rutherford
jannr@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Sep 2, 1999 10:17 am
Hi Everyone, As an old/new subscriber to this list, I would like to pose a simple question. In all this discussion about which format is preferable, are users...
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Major Tom
majortom@xxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 4:42 pm
... Very well said. I'm a publisher - not a author. I do highly targeted trade and very specilized tech almost exclusively electronic. and have been doing so...
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Michael S. Hart
hart@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 4:45 pm
This is Project Gutenberg's Newsletter of Wednesday, September 1, 1999 Etexts Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since Before The Internet [Usually sent the...
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Jon Noring
noring@xxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 5:03 pm
... You are extrapolating that XML e-books will be like online HTML file sets, a bunch of discrete files rather than a single file. However, a complete file ...
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VIPP -
vippub@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 5:20 pm
Hi: I am new to the list. I am surprised at the number of posts in regards to XML. I have read the XML will be used in e-commerce and for web database...
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VIPP -
vippub@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 5:23 pm
Hi: The following is a follow up article to the EMatter post I submitted yesterday. I am not promoting Fatbrain.com, but merely sharing the news clip. It...
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Roy Lewis
rlewis@xxxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 5:35 pm
I agree that we should all consider this possibility as a matter of fact we may need to comply with ADA to provide materials in whatever format is needed. I...
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Jon Noring
noring@xxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 5:39 pm
... Yes, it is being discussed on this mailing list. Many of us think it is very important, and not only for accessibility by the visually impaired. For ...
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Jon Noring
noring@xxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 6:08 pm
... Just as a note there is major effort to build XML DTD's to cover every facet of publishing, such as XMath, XChem, etc. The things you mention above are, ...
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Kelly Ford
kford@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 6:49 pm
Hi All, I noticed the following clip in today's collection of stories from Wired. I'm new to this list so perhaps all this is old news. E-BOOKS: READ 'EM AND...
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Jon Noring
noring@xxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 8:15 pm
[I'm posting the following message from Kurt Foss, since he was not able to directly post to eBook-List from the account he is using. Jon Noring, eBook-List...
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Joseph Teller
fantasyrealms@xxxxxxx...
Sep 1, 1999 8:32 pm
... Chances are, what Adobe will do is integrate XML features in to PDF, not abandon PDF and the existing installed base. I love how there are XML experts on...
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Joseph Teller
fantasyrealms@xxxxxxx...
Sep 1, 1999 8:32 pm
... This was not true of the textbooks my wife got from her courses on Accounting and on using Excel in accounting procedures at Bentley (one of the premiere...
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Joseph Teller
fantasyrealms@xxxxxxx...
Sep 1, 1999 8:32 pm
... If there isn't software, then it isn't here. Its simply a specification until someone builds the software. ... How can it be better than straight ASCII,...
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Joseph Teller
fantasyrealms@xxxxxxx...
Sep 1, 1999 8:32 pm
... Early versions of Microsoft Help are the reason why it failed to get beyond the help function. It does not do pure HTML, the compiler was very klunky, and ...
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Joseph Teller
fantasyrealms@xxxxxxx...
Sep 1, 1999 8:32 pm
... Condolences on the passing of your furry friend. They add to our lives, and their departure lessen us in ways that words do not describe well enough. Joe ...
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Ben Trafford
bent@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 8:51 pm
... place the ... a single ... Once again, untrue. You can, in fact, place all your information in a single file using XML. ... in ... XML ... No, it can't....
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Ben Trafford
bent@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 8:46 pm
... Untrue. ... (Since Also untrue. Quark is, by far, the most common form accepted by small printers, and large ones. Where are you getting this information? ...
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Joseph Teller
fantasyrealms@xxxxxxx...
Sep 1, 1999 9:09 pm
I've just finished looking over the material regarding the Fatbrain.com site and it seems that they are doing a reasonable plan for micropayment (though not ...
