O'Reilly Challenges Proprietary eBook Standards With Bookworm
It is only Tuesday, but it has already been a good week for eBook fans. Yesterday, Amazon released the newest version of its Kindle eBook reader, and today, O'Reilly announced that it will now host Bookworm, a popular open source eBook reader and management system, as part of its O'Reilly Labs. O'Reilly wants to position Bookworm, which is built on open standards and frameworks, as an alternative to proprietary eBook management and reading systems like Adobe's Digital Editions and Sony's eBook Library Software.
Bookworm is an online service for storing and reading eBooks online. Bookworm was built on top of the ePub standard, an open standard for electronic books that is currently supported by a number of commercial publishers, including Penguin Books, Waterstone's, O'Reilly, Books on Board, and a number of smaller publishers and free eBook sites.
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