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[Press Release] OSoft Partners with OpenReader
Press release located at:
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/051026/265702.html?.v=1
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OSoft Partners with OpenReader
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Taking the "Fright" Out of e-books -- With Open Standards
TACOMA, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 26, 2005 -- Buying e-books can be
Halloween-scary. They come in many electronic formats -- everything
from Microsoft Reader to obscure ones cooked up by hobbyists. You can
buy `em online, only to discover you`ve paid for the wrong format.
Have you ever tried to return an e-book?
But what if you could download an e-book and know the format was right
for your PDA, cell phone, tablet or desktop computer system? Suppose
an orange logo on the box reassured you: "OpenReader compatible"? And
what if you saw a similar logo at an online retailer, so you could
confidently buy the book?
"That`s our vision for OpenReader -- to help e-publications be as
compatible and easy to buy and use as music CDs," says Mark Carey,
president of OSoft.com. "We`re modifying our existing ThoutReader(TM)
technology to adopt XML, an international e-document standard that no
one owns and everyone can use."
The new format will come from the OpenReader Consortium
(openreader.org), headed by e-book standards expert Jon Noring. Among
the consortium`s cofounders are XML expert Michael Day in Australia
and Rick Barry, former information services chief for the World Bank,
an archives-and-records specialist.
Meanwhile OSoft will turn its XML-based ThoutReader(TM) into
OpenReader by next May.
"Anyone can build OpenReader-compatible software," says Noring, a
veteran of years of standards efforts within the e-book industry. "But
OSoft is the first to act. Microsoft and Adobe promote their
proprietary formats, and Google and Yahoo are more focused on scanning
images of books than promoting a standard format that can be
customized and will look great on the screen."
Victor McCrary, who initiated e-book standards efforts while at the
National Institute of Standards and Technology, has endorsed
OpenReader. So have leading e-bookstores like eBooks.com and
Fictionwise.com.
"Whether it`s Google or a small online store, we`re eager to help
everyone adopt open standards," says co-founder David Rothman,
OpenReader`s strategy and external relations director. "We`ll raze the
tower of eBabel so e-books can be reliably read 500 years from now.
Reading software may change over time but the basic electronic format
can remain the same."
Contact:
OSoft
Mark Carey, 253-284-0475
mcarey@...
or
OpenReader
Jon Noring, 801-253-4037
info@...
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