Universal Ebook Format Debated

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday June 4, 2003 @11:39PM from the ebook-em-danno dept.

Amy Hsieh writes "A well-known ebook industry expert, Jon Noring, recently wrote an interesting article for eBookWeb, formally calling upon the ebook industry to adopt a single universal ebook distribution format. Right now there's a plethora of essentially incompatible ebook formats, and this format 'babel' is hampering the growth of the ebook industry. In the article, Mr. Noring proposes a promising open-standards candidate which appears to meet a list of basic requirements: The Open eBook Forum's OEBPS Specification. Andy Oram, a Linux programming editor for O'Reilly, wrote an interesting reply to the article that should also be read." On the other hand, Noring's proposal has also met with some skepticism elsewhere.

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fp! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-04 23:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic

fp for lunix fagz!!!!1111 diediedie
Re:Babel? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-05 00:32 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Slashdot: Home of the lameness filter that stops perfectly good posts. I guess they want to make space for the ASCII art. Slash is a hunk of junk, it truely is.
Re:Like the word processing industry by Zeriel · 2003-06-05 07:15 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I suppose it'll shoot my karma to admit I was trying to be modded funny, too. =P

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