Hi everyone In response to Jon's call for introductions, my name is George Walkley. I'm the Director of Digital Strategy at Little, Brown in the UK. My...
Hello All, I am Martyn Folkes, publisher at Mushroom eBooks and Bladud Books in the UK. We have been using OEB for years as the basis for conversion to other...
Hello All, My name is Edwin. I am not a publishing professional, just an end user who thinks e-books are the best thing since sliced bread. I've have recently ...
Hi all, I'm Rob Preece, publisher at BooksForABuck.com. Right now I'm looking at ePub as a possible format to add to the list of eBook formats we support...
Hi everyone; My name is Aaron J. Walker (AJ) and I am the publisher of Walk Broad Publishing. I am just starting on the journey of becoming an all original...
Hi, I am the Director for the Ralph D Winter Library Project, it is an e-library platform being developed for our school: Olivet University, a Christian school...
Hi, I'm a Houston technical writer and contributor to Teleread. I'm currently investigating how one could dump TEI stuff into epub for a fiction manuscript. (I...
I wrote the 'Epub Format Construction Guide'. Previously, I produced a couple of books for gutenberg.org, and published an ebook for mobipocket. Otherwise, I...
Hello everyone, I'm Hadrien Gardeur, co-founder of Feedbooks and moderator on this group (thank you Jon!). Through our main (http://www.feedbooks.com...
Hi all, I'm Mike Cook, the ex-newsletter editor for Project Gutenberg, webmaster of PG-News.org and more recently owner of ePubBooks.com. Along with Hadrien...
My name is Preston DuBose and I'm the president of 12 to Midnight <http://12tomidnight.com/> , a roleplaying game publisher. We've been publishing e-books for...
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Aaron S. Miller
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Apr 18, 2008 9:27 pm
Hey Everyone, I'm Aaron Miller, co-founder of BookGlutton.com, a community for people who want to read books on-line. We use ePub as an internal format right...
In a recent email to Jon Noring I made a passing comment about how we write the word "epub". The IDPF have not yet standardised the moniker, leaving everyone...
Everyone, In the comments area of the following TeleRead blog article, written by Aaron Miller (who subscribes to this group), a few of us discussed whether or...
... Excellent topic! And one which is fairly important. Hopefully the IDPF Board will resolve this matter fairly soon, along with a branding logo which David...
From: "Jon Noring" ... Perhaps one problem with 'pub' in any form is that is is also the vernacular in the UK for an establishment devoted to the consumption...
Hi everyone, my name is Alain Pierrot. I have been involved for some years in electronic publishing and standards. Besides my present work for i2S Digibook...
I asked myself: Is there an objective way of deciding? Or some good basis for evaluation? And, as I said at epubbooks.com, common/ standard english leads...
... For me this is not an issue at the moment. The book industry is quite large these days and if the goals of the IDPF are interpreted that they wish to allow...
... I spent the last five or so years working and living among North Americans, and for these last 8 months here in Germany. It's always been fun explaining ...
... Hmm. You set me wondering. A euphemism, an abbreviation - specifically an acronym. As an acronym of electronic publishing, being general [and this...
From: "Mike Cook" ... Many thanks for your kind words ;-). We won't get on to 'pants'. ... On another list virtual pints are very used! Like all internet ...
From: "Mike Cook" ... This might bring up again the question of the purpose of epub. The previous most adaptable standard - pdf - is attempting to keep abreast...
Hi Everyone-- I'm Jessica Callender, an independent publisher, with 15 titles. We sell in print format and were selling in ebook format (PDF) through...
My name is Laisvunas Sopauskas. I am philosopher and lover of classics. Being no professional publisher I am passionate about compiling and publishing special...
From: "sopalais" ... Laisvunas, This is a very considerable work you have undertaken, and your scholarly approach is impressive. As you say it would have ...
Epub is mainly for traditional-style books, and they don't need scripting. That would be an easily defendable position: Traditional books (etc) are a distinct,...
... I fully agree about your remark that introducing scripting is tied with the purpose of epub: Should it be a standard defining a multiplatform "browser",...
