Open E-Book Format

I happend to found this today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epub

It is pretty interesting to me that such a format exists. I do not have the money to buy an E-book reader such as Kindle. Before today, I thought the de facto format for E-books must be pdf.

I am not sure what is going to dominate the universe in the end. But a unified format definitely will help reform this publishing industry. Some would call it a thing that extincts publishing business. But hey, I don't think so. This E-book technology will face lift this industry. Not to extinct it but to make it circulate faster.

I can't stop to think about the current problem of newspapers in countries with widespread Internet. They got their business shrinking because they did not do good enough to become a portal site that attracts enough eyeballs. Without enough scale, their ad business is going out to companies that knows how to do this on the Internet.

With the evolution/revolution of Internet technology, many has to make a decision now. They can choose to create their own business model in Internet age. Or to close the door and turn themselves into some expensive watch makers that becomes something for rich people's exhibit.

Staying still is not the way out.

A Special Crash Report

I've never seen something like this, but this one is really cute. (At least to me...)

'import site' failed; use -v for traceback

Sorry, command-not-found has crashed! Please file a bug report at:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/command-not-found

Please include the following information with the report:

No module named CommandNotFound

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/lib/command-not-found", line 10, in

from CommandNotFound import CommandNotFound

ImportError: No module named CommandNotFound

Python version: 2.5.2 final 0