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The limitations of the EPUB standard are forcing publishers to offer ebooks for the iPad as apps.

The other obvious advantages are that your catalog is searchable by keywords directly from iTunes and you don’t have to worry about running your own bookstore.

The obvious disadvantages are that since there are no private shared libraries each book is delivered with the entire overhead of an app (even if they all use exactly the same code), your library of books will clutter up the iPad’s “homepage” and each book will have to go through the Apple app review process.

Media Business reports on open source alternatives to closed content control systems. The take home lesson is that your content is your value added and you don’t want it being held hostage by anybody outside of your company.

Dilip R Vellodi interview at rediff includes an interesting point. “Currently, over 84% of our revenues come from F1000 space.” Does Sutherland Global Services not have a focus to serve small and medium sized companies?

Apparently Borders will soon open a private labeled Kobo store.

This is interesting because they use Adobe Digital Editions instead of trying to reinvent DRM all over again like everybody else. Finally ePublishing is becoming a service instead of a brand new cult at every outlet.

While iPad supports Adobe PDF files, this fixed page layout format is poorly supported by the smaller screens of the iPhone and iPod touch. Because Apple wants to support the same books on all of their platforms (in much the same way as Amazon has reader software for PCs and iPhones that all use the same account), the file format for the iBookstore will be EPUB.

While this is fine for the big players in the publishing industry, smaller players have to work through a third party to get onto the iBookstore and for the moment this means Smashwords and they require Microsoft Word documents with limited formatting.