Category Archives: AAP

How ePub beats obsolescence

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Jon Noring

When I was in college I collected 78 RPM phonograph records, primarily jazz records from the late 1920’s and early 1930’s. I suppose I got pretty good at it, or maybe was just very lucky, since I found and acquired several large jazz and blues collections (a total of over 100,000 records, about 25 tons!, [...] Continue reading →

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AAP supports ePub as a consumer format: A clarification from AAP’s digital policy director

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Jon Noring

AAP’s recent open letter strongly supporting the use of ePub by publishers was covered by David Rothman in a separate blog article.
Reading the letter, it was unclear to me whether AAP supported ePub as a consumer format. The letter focused mostly on using ePub as an intermediary format to be converted by wholesalers and retailers [...] Continue reading →

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