Jörg Morgan Wrobel asked:

> I would like to ask you if there will be a sample eBook edition in
> the OpenReader Format, wich everybody can download from your website
> and use as a kind of guideline or template to create own eBook
> editions. This might be very helpfull for beginners. I do not think
> that anyone would not welcome one or maybe some. To be really usefull
> the sample file should have examples of all possibilities of the
> OpenReader format.

The answer is an emphatic yes!

The first OpenReader format sample I will put together will likely be
"My Antonia". Since I want to demonstrate the feature of out-of-spine
content, plus the OpenReader namespace special elements, such as page
break and line break, I plan to ask to use Jose Menendez' version,
rather than the one I've been working on as a demonstration
illustrating some principles (mine does not include line breaks from
the original book, and Jose has added corrections, including a few not
previously recognized by Cather scholars, that thrive in the
OpenReader framework -- OpenReader is built to handle non-linear
content.) I'd like to ask for help with CSS styling for this book, and
this includes supporting multiple Style Sets, so we're not restricted
to just one particular presentation.

I hope to also take someone's XML-standards web site and put that into
OpenReader, since OpenReader is also designed to represent
publications using the web paradigm. Any ideas? The documents must
conform to the Basic Content Document vocabulary, and JavaScript and
other like stuff is not supported.

Bill Janssen recommended I find a children's book with lots of
illustrations and put that into OpenReader. I have a few people I can
ask to provide material, or I can glean it from PG/DP.

And OSoft, along with its strategic partners, as well as LibraryCity,
is planning to publish a lot of books and documents in the OpenReader
format.

I hope to begin work on My Antonia after I return from Book Expo early
next week.

Jon