Comments on: Gathering steam in Boston, Part II: E-books ahead? http://www.teleread.com/sadi-ranson-polizzotti/gathering-steam-in-boston-part-ii-e-books-ahead/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:55:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Robert Nagle http://www.teleread.com/sadi-ranson-polizzotti/gathering-steam-in-boston-part-ii-e-books-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-57255 Robert Nagle Fri, 05 May 2006 20:36:26 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4800#comment-57255 There are two barriers to gather going to ebooks. First, legal issues. Web Community sites usually don't get advance permission for additional redistribution possibilities (although that could change). It requires negotiating licenses, royalties, etc. It ain't easy. Second, there really is not the kind of widespread availability of portable reading devices to justify the effort. Not yet anyway. the problem is that lots of readers just don't like reading from a laptop or monitor for long periods of time. That said, XML/XML-rpc should make it a trivial effort to create ebooks from xml content. There are two barriers to gather going to ebooks. First, legal issues. Web Community sites usually don’t get advance permission for additional redistribution possibilities (although that could change). It requires negotiating licenses, royalties, etc. It ain’t easy.

Second, there really is not the kind of widespread availability of portable reading devices to justify the effort. Not yet anyway. the problem is that lots of readers just don’t like reading from a laptop or monitor for long periods of time.

That said, XML/XML-rpc should make it a trivial effort to create ebooks from xml content.

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