[Xavier Cazin]

Hi John,

I believe what TW is capable of FAR EXCEEDS the functionality and BEAUTY of other eBook formats - and my limited coding ability holds me back from making this THE future for eBooks - yes - I am an advocate and part-visionary as I see in TW what hasn't been used to advantage 

As a digital publishing professional, let me second your statement heartily. I think we are not that far from being able to import automatically any ePub in TW5, or via a mere drag and drop. Apart from writing an ad hoc importer, I think that the only remaining obstacle is the handling of HTML anchors. Once we get the ability to convert ePub to TW5 (we are talking about potentially 4 million ebooks), we'd have a book format that is truly rooted into the Web, instead of just having PDF replaced with HTML. That would make a huge difference for readers and writers.

Now, that doesn't mean that the publishing world is about to be conquered: ebooks are currently sold mostly by vendors (Amazon, Apple,..) who don't like open formats.
​

​Xavier.​

On 17 Jun 2016, at 4:24 PM, Mat <matia...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi John, you mentioned in another thread that your book is about to be released.

Could I, on behalf o f the community, ask you to share your final TW-as-eBook setup (without content) ? It sounds like a spot-on thing as an edition and I'm sure it would be very appealing to a lot of people - including people who would not otherwise begin using TW.

Thank you!

<:-)

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[Josiah]

Ciao Xavier & John

It interests me a lot to LEVERAGE off the the huge e-text repositories that now exists. Many of them have very fair copyright regulations that allow their e-texts to be used, often without even acknowledgement.

I suspect that an initiative around this, which there are often, in this list, intimations of, could get TW much more widely used.

In another thread I have pointed to a couple of things that would help. At the moment its not so easy to make a "semi-edtibable" TW. I think it would be MOST RELEVANT for e-texts to allow addition of (1) notes (2) bookmarks. But WITHOUT the rest of the editing system.

Best wishes
Josiah