Re: Is there an alternate format for Euphoric Mysteries Ebook?
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Oct 04, 2009
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I fullyunderstand the position of those with visual and other challenges but it was originally meant to be a commercial offering, this needed to be protected.
I put it, even in it's incomplete form, on the site to gauge interest. I would have completed it and converted it into a form that could be supported on Vista but I got not one single constructive comment back. I have therefore taken the view that it would be a waste of my time to continue it and must leave the task to others.
This is understandable. If someone else thinks it is a great work and should be in an open format, that person can always take screenshots and type up the book again by hand.
But, hey, it's free and it took tons of my time to write and do the graphics. Read it, don't read it.
This is a reasonable position. One big company that shall remain unnamed (*cough* Adobe *cough*) went further and tried to prevent blind people from using their format, potentially even after they had paid for it.
It's a format I worte myself years ago because there were no decent standards that would let me use anaimation, embedded graphics, etc. Again,this was something not really availablewhen I started writing it.
This I have trouble believing. HTML and animated gifs were available back in the days of Windows 95! Granted, HTML is not so good for "protected works".
