On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 12:55 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:
As to methods of production for a book, as several people have pointed out, this is unlikely to be a money-making venture in the short term, and IMHO for the health of the RunRev product, the info should not be too hard to get to. For that reason I for one am against use of technology like Mark Brownell's, which if I understand it correctly is designed to maintain commercial secrecy and to give strong protection to copyright materials. At this stage I feel we're nearer to a need for something close to non-profit-making which seems to me to call for a more open production technology.
As to my e-book technology, the MTML Study Tool is offered in a free to distribute format. I'm sure that a free to use version could be set up that just keeps getting better as individual authors make contributions to it. My primary goal is to get my hands on a book as fast as I can. I'm willing to work on this project for free if that is the only way to get a book written by several experts. On the other hand I'm also a publisher and am interested in working with individuals that wouldn't mind distributing there work in this study tool format. I created the MTML study tool based on the e-book industry's wish list for an e-book technology. I'm learning RunRev so I can port it over to other platforms. I'm currently working on the Blowfish algorithm for my own RunRev projects. Knowing what I know about the study tool I can't think of a better tool to read a book in. It has search capabilities and note taking functions that make it a more powerful tool the more that it gets used.
I hope that whatever ends up happening regarding this project that it goes beyond talking about it very soon.
Mark
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