Quoting Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Does anyone know where OOo stands in regards to publishing ebooks?
Currently, OOo doesn't do eBook formats. Unless you count the fact
that it can do HTML/XHtml, and these formats can be easily done into
an ebook.
If you followed my previous link to the home page
(http://www.openreader.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1) you
will see the project has given way to http://www.idpf.org/
This is a bit of a side topic, but I believe within 15 years ebooks
will become the norm for reading literature. I believe that in 70 to
80 years we will possess sufficient technology to begin the move to a
truly paperless society.
I believe 15 years is a little far out there. Most of the stuff for
ebooks, exist today. The biggest reason we don't see more ebooks, is
mainly due to the publishers afraid EBooks will create the same
environment that we currently see with MP3 files.
The EBooks I find today are encumbered by so much DRM that the books
are basically unusable.
A master ebook which when updated will allow anyone who owns a copy of
that book to automatically receive updates. When you buy an ebook you
may find automatically included in the price, 5 years of updates to the
information. Cooperative (live) writing ventures for texts, etc.
Owning a library of over 100 000 of your favorite books all loaded on a
memory card. Books which can be read to you, books which you can
annotate, books which you can edit and draw conclusions and interact
with in many different ways.
A digital screen which in bright light reflects light just like paper
and in dim light transmits light as is currently done and automatically
switches back and forth for maximum readability.
EInk is a technology available today that offers this.
http://www.eink.com/
Looks very promising.
Just as we've made the leap from writing everything on paper to using
typewriters to using computers to type our documents, I believe the
formal expression of our written efforts will also ultimately change.
I suspect ebooks at a certain point will become a publishing standard.
Bringing all of the open source tools together to make this possible
may be the trick. I'm sure OOo will play a role in this at some point.
I have been using Plucker EBook format for around 5 years now. It
works on most portable devices.
Article: http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/07/2044240.shtml
Alan
Check below for some comments on that topic.....
http://www.openreader.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=77&Itemid=164
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