Comments on: New ePub creator from Infogrid Pacific – free for non-commercial use http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/new-epub-creator-from-infogrid-pacific-free-for-non-commercial-use/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:00:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Robert Nagle http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/new-epub-creator-from-infogrid-pacific-free-for-non-commercial-use/comment-page-1/#comment-1015520 Robert Nagle Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:00:08 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=17368#comment-1015520 Wow, what a great resource! I look forward to trying it out. Just a year ago we were bemoaning a lack of epub tools; now tools are beginning to emerge. A lot has changed in only a year. Wow, what a great resource! I look forward to trying it out. Just a year ago we were bemoaning a lack of epub tools; now tools are beginning to emerge. A lot has changed in only a year.

]]> By: Richard Pipe http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/new-epub-creator-from-infogrid-pacific-free-for-non-commercial-use/comment-page-1/#comment-1014181 Richard Pipe Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:11:03 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=17368#comment-1014181 The reason there is no pricing for commercial use is quite frankly: a) Don't know if anyone would want to use a desktop ePub only creator commercially, b) The idea was to rise to Dave's challenge for an open source OOo to ePub app. Hence the apology on the Blog for it being a drop-in, not being a Plug-in (too darn hard) c) It has too much of our business value buried inside to just give away (we have to feed the children), but to the real eBook amateur enthusiast, we are happy to support them. d) Does everything have to be commercial? There is no commercial model for this planned. Beg us... give us a zillion dollars... and we might turn it into another software commodity. However IGP:FLIP is our commercial app for instant multi-format production and eScape is an ePub adoption "accelerator"... maybe... or as Wayne said... not. The reason there is no pricing for commercial use is quite frankly:

a) Don’t know if anyone would want to use a desktop ePub only creator commercially,

b) The idea was to rise to Dave’s challenge for an open source OOo to ePub app. Hence the apology on the Blog for it being a drop-in, not being a Plug-in (too darn hard)

c) It has too much of our business value buried inside to just give away (we have to feed the children), but to the real eBook amateur enthusiast, we are happy to support them.

d) Does everything have to be commercial?

There is no commercial model for this planned. Beg us… give us a zillion dollars… and we might turn it into another software commodity. However IGP:FLIP is our commercial app for instant multi-format production and eScape is an ePub adoption “accelerator”… maybe… or as Wayne said… not.

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