{"id":333,"date":"2011-10-26T16:10:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T16:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/butcherbaker.net\/wordpress\/?p=333"},"modified":"2011-10-26T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T16:10:07","slug":"the-ebook-fragmentation-toolset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/26\/the-ebook-fragmentation-toolset\/","title":{"rendered":"The eBook Fragmentation Toolset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writer and game designer Guido Henkel has weighed in on <a href=\"http:\/\/guidohenkel.com\/2011\/10\/amazon-introduces-new-indle-ebook-format-and-makes-a-major-misstep\/\" title=\"Henkel on KF8\">Amazon&#8217;s recent announcement<\/a> of the KF8 format, which brings HTML5 to the Kindle. He makes the very salient point that, while it promises to move the platform forward, there&#8217;s a devil in the fine print. His concern? Platform fragmentation. As he rightly points out, the Kindle line now includes three sets of incompatible capabilities. The idea of &#8220;write once, run anywhere,&#8221; the catchy slogan Sun Microsystems coined to sell Java, deteriorates into that familiar rejoinder, &#8220;write once, debug everywhere.&#8221;<br \/>\nThis is, unfortunately, the nature of the beast. As Andy Rubin, Google&#8217;s VP of Engineering, notes in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2010\/feb\/15\/google-open-apps-mobile-world-congress\" title=\"Andy Rubin on write once\">The Guardian<\/a> about a recent attempt to bring sanity to the mobile space: &#8220;There is always a dream that you could write [a program] once and [have it] run anywhere and history has proven that that dream has not been fully realised and I am sceptical that it ever will be.&#8221;<br \/>\nThat doesn&#8217;t mean there shouldn&#8217;t be some push-back. Vocal and persistent push-back. And if anyone knows about fragmentation, it should be Andy Rubin, Google&#8217;s Android guru. The Android platform is <a href=\"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/2011\/08\/news\/updates-or-lack-thereof-on-the-android-update-alliance\/\" title=\"Android fragmentation\">seriously fragmented<\/a>. It&#8217;s so bad at the moment that developers actually have to decide which Android version (and hardware platform) to write for.<br \/>\nAt the same time, it is clear to me that Amazon&#8217;s push for KF8 is a much-needed move toward HTML5, in support of the Kindle Fire. I would have preferred they adopt the ePub format, but I suspect Amazon doesn&#8217;t want to cut the MOBI cord entirely. The promise of backward compatibility is always tempting, especially when some of your developers (and PMs) were schooled at Microsoft.<br \/>\nSo am I panicking yet? Well, I&#8217;m trying to keep things in perspective.<br \/>\nThe hardest job, in my estimation, isn&#8217;t converting a work to the eBook format. The hardest job is writing the work in the first place. As I&#8217;ve said here a number of times, what I really want are <a href=\"http:\/\/butcherbaker.net\/wordpress\/?p=30\" title=\"Tools\">BETTER TOOLS<\/a> for that last mile, where conversion takes place. I was an early fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portfolio.com\/views\/blogs\/pressed\/2011\/08\/03\/facebook-buys-digital-book-startup-push-pop-press\/\" title=\"Facebook purchase Push Pop Press\">Push Pop Press<\/a> (gone). I think <a href=\"http:\/\/help.adobe.com\/en_US\/indesign\/cs\/using\/WS032BF3B3-6DF2-4544-9017-3AD3160F6C65a.html\" title=\"InDesign Export to ePub\">Adobe&#8217;s InDesign<\/a> has great potential here. InDesign isn&#8217;t perfect, but Adobe has stepped up to the plate and released an ePub plug-in; Amazon has added its own Kindle plug-in to the mix. Good first steps.<br \/>\nYes, it urinates me to have to create, I dunno, three or four versions of everything. I care what my work looks like. I tweak the code to improve the result. I loathe the idea of turning it over to Smashwords or Smashmouth or whatever the hell it&#8217;s called. So please, Amazon (and Apple, for that matter), don&#8217;t let this get out of hand. Next time you have a big idea about moving the eBook format forward, call Andy Rubin. No, wait. 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