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Stephen Downes

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There is discontent in the world of ebooks and the pattern is familiar to those of us working in other areas. As summarized in Slashdot, TeleRead's David Rothman is calling for [here andCRLFhere] the replacement of the Open eBook Forum by "an honestCRLFtrade association" and a related standards body to create an open standards ebook format at the consumer-level." According to Rothman, "OeBF is being held hostage by its Gold Sponsors, including Microsoft, Adobe, and Palm Digital, companies with proprietary, incompatible ebook format solutions."

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