On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Rob Hudson wrote: > I'm asking for a friend, and so far I don't know too much about eBooks. > I thought thew were like PDFs and Adobe had something to do with them? > What's the Open Ebook and all the other 'ebook' formats mentioned (zTXT, > Rich Reader, TealDoc, Plucker, etc)? > > What's an ebook? Are they just for PDAs? Or more general than that? > If my friend wants to sell an ebook and wants a wide audience, which > format should he be shooting towards?
depends on the market he is aiming for. If it's mostly people who are going to be reading it at their desk, and possibly printing it out then PDF is not a bad choice. If your target market is heavy users of PDA's or is likely to want automated text-to-speech conversion then Open eBook might be a better choice. Or use a heavyweight logical markup like DocBook or Latex and generate multiple output formats. My own preference would be DocBook, because I know I can find output filters for PDF, postscript, smart-ascii, html and most any widely available format. -- http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
