In July, the Institute for the Future of the Book will release Sophie, which they describe as “an open-source platform for creating and reading electronic books for the networked environment”. The beta release will be available even sooner, for readers of the if:book blog. It will be interesting to see what Sophie allows a writer of digital documents to do. Of course, writers for the web can always use Flash or any number of other tools, but the lower the learning curve, the better, in my opinion. Not every good writer has the time or inclination to learn XHTML, CSS, Flash, ActionScript, etc.

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Other Posts Categorized as Open Source:

• Second Life Developers to Release Client Source Code - January 10th, 2007
• Cool Open-Source Hardware and Machines - December 2nd, 2006
• Flash Player 9 for Linux in the Works - July 13th, 2006
• Flash 9 for Linux - July 1st, 2006
• Sandy 1.0 Beta Released - June 24th, 2006
• Verlet Integration in Flash with Flade Open Source Flash Dynamics Engine - June 4th, 2006
• Filter Forge Photoshop Plugin Allows You to Build Your Own Filters - May 27th, 2006
• Version 0.3 of the Sandy Flash 3D API Is Coming - March 11th, 2006
• Sandy, the New Open-Source Flash 3D API - February 25th, 2006