Re: [sword-devel] Google eBooks

2010-12-07 Thread Chris Little
On 12/6/2010 10:24 PM, Greg Hellings wrote: I don't know if Google has an application like that or if their books are compatible with other ebook readers which might be available on those platforms - though their scans of the PD works would still suffer the scrolling issues. Google has apps f

Re: [sword-devel] Google eBooks

2010-12-06 Thread Matthew Talbert
> I would think some of the HTML widgets which our applications use > might be use could potentially know how to handle an external > application already to display a PDF (MacSword's embedding of Safari > and possibly BT's embedding of QWebKit?  Maybe Xiphos with Xulrunner? > Would be an interestin

Re: [sword-devel] Google eBooks

2010-12-06 Thread Greg Hellings
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Chris Little wrote: > On 12/6/2010 9:34 AM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > As far as selection of non-PD material goes, I'm not terribly impressed. > Amazon, Apple, & Google each have different sets books available, but I > believe Amazon still leads overall. Completel

Re: [sword-devel] Google eBooks

2010-12-06 Thread Chris Little
On 12/6/2010 9:34 AM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: Google Books-- what in its previous incarnation became http://print.google.com -- has been re-issued as an an online eBook store: http://books.google.com/help/ebooks/overview.html How does this affect us, and could we build a ModDrv for the Google

Re: [sword-devel] Google eBooks

2010-12-06 Thread David Haslam
Troy, Presumably you're thinking of the latter part of the sentence, "We offer the world's largest selection of ebooks -- hundreds of thousands of new titles for purchase, in addition to nearly 3 million free ebooks." ? I suppose that Google is doing this in direct competition with Amazon ? Dav

[sword-devel] Google eBooks

2010-12-06 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Google Books-- what in its previous incarnation became http://print.google.com -- has been re-issued as an an online eBook store: http://books.google.com/help/ebooks/overview.html How does this affect us, and could we build a ModDrv for the Google eBook format for our engine so we could be a spec