One minute I was reading Roger Sperberg's "Why Do Publisher's Need XML?" post, and the next time I looked, I was typing like a mad woman. "Wait!" I thought to myself. "He's only talking about one facet of publishing, but making it read like this is true for all of publishing! What about all of the other acts of publishing that do need XML?" Huh? Publishing has facets? Well, yeah. I've worked in multiple facets of the publishing community: University Press, Journals, Technical Publications, Textbooks for K-12, Higher Education, and Continuing Education, as well as Enterprise Publishing at some very large...

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Welcome to TeleRead’s newest contributor, Jean Kaplansky. She’s an XML pro and violin-lover who lives in upstate New York with her husband, three dogs and five cats. “I've been doing the e-book thing,” Jeans writes, “since the emergence of Peanut Reader for the Palm way back in the ‘90s.” Why not visit a nearby B&N and share your experiences? Will successful software updates be enough to win you over? Or is this one DOA? – D.R. I’ve had my hands on the Nook, and I was disappointed in what almost all the reviewers seem to be disappointed in....

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