Hello Jon,
thanks for the answer. I guess you will send out an e-mail as soon as
your sample(s) is/are downloadable, right?
I also plan to publish all of my e-book editions in the open reader
format. As mentioned earlier I have about 230 titles and all of them
have bee already converted/published in the OEBPS format for the
earlier Gemstar readers and today we still convert our titles with
that old software("Gemstar eBook Publisher") prior to downgrading
them to the Mobipocket format. Till this very day the "Gemstar eBook
Publisher" software is very usefull and I hope that OSoft is not just
working on their DOTREADER but also on PlugIns for the convenience of
conversion. Do you have any information on this?

Best Regards
eBookMedia.de - Jörg Morgan Wrobel



Am 17.05.2006 um 21:52 schrieb Jon Noring:

> 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
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Post a message: openreader-format@yahoogroups.com
> Unsubscribe: openreader-format-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
> Switch to digest: openreader-format-digest@yahoogroups.com
> Switch to normal: openreader-format-normal@yahoogroups.com
> Put mail on hold: openreader-format-nomail@yahoogroups.com
> Administrator: openreader-format-owner@yahoogroups.com
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>
> YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS
>
> Visit your group "openreader-format" on the web.
>
> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> openreader-format-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
>
>



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]