Open Letter to Apple and the Pages DEV Team
Dear Apple -
I am a web developer and a beginning fiction author... I love my macbook... I am planning to get a ipad with the Pages App soon (upgrading to a Macbook Pro first). I am also an owner of the iphone 4, and therefore have explored ibooks. Here is a hint from someone who while I am a beginning author, I have done ebooks for technical writing and user guides with my paying clients.
Do you want to kill the kindle and the Amazon eformat?
There is one thing you at Apple can do that will hasten the death of AZW. Add a export to epub format option in Pages. I have bought iworks every time a new version has been released. This is something I can not say about any other product, including OSes. For someone who has been in IT for over ten years, such product loyalty is rare. Please make it easier for me to use epub then it is to use Amazon.
Thank you
Tom S.
Martin Luther had an easier job of getting noticed.
If memory serves, the worthy doctor was protected at the Diet of Worms by Friedrich der Weise, Frederick the Wise, the Elector of Saxony. There is an excellent engraving of Friedrich by Albrecht Dührer.
The problem in the present situation is that the institution that has been selling letters of absolution has been doing so on paper that allows the letters to fall off the page, so to speak. And it has some problems admitting to this.
/hh
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