Comments on: O’Reilly to Amazon: Open the Kindle! http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/07/07/oreilly-calls-for-amazon-to-open-the-kindle/ What's Hot & What's Cooking in Scholarly Publishing - from the Society for Scholarly Publishing Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:25:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: New Technologies and the Need for Standards « The Scholarly Kitchen http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/07/07/oreilly-calls-for-amazon-to-open-the-kindle/#comment-4585 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:36:45 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=4884#comment-4585 [...] argued that one essential way to move the e-book market forward is to settle on a standard file format, the most likely being ePub, despite its many obvious [...]

]]> By: thorn http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/07/07/oreilly-calls-for-amazon-to-open-the-kindle/#comment-3793 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:58:13 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=4884#comment-3793 yep. note to amazon: open the kindle!

and – note 2 to amazon: open your dang e-book format! why shouldn’t sony reader owners be able to purchase their content directly from amazon, rather than (possibly) having to purchase from other sources, where content is far more expensive? i’m thinking their $ is as good as anyone’s..

]]> By: Kaveh http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/07/07/oreilly-calls-for-amazon-to-open-the-kindle/#comment-3791 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:38:20 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=4884#comment-3791 I fully agree with Tim O’Reilly. And there is another reason to use open specifications for eBooks, namely to allow complex STM content, like tables and math, to be used in eBooks. Presently there is no solution for complex STM content, save a dumb PDF.

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