AZARDI Update

2010-07-01: AZARDI is no longer in development or support by Infogrid Pacific.
It can still be downloaded

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We have been receiving a lot of feedback about AZARDI recently, most of it complimentary and helpful, and some installation problems.

I just need to make the announcement that we are a little hung up on resources at present. AZARDI is a "part time" development. We are planning a more aggressive development program next year.

Meanwhile I would like to thank the over 20,000 people who have downloaded AZARDI for their support (OK, it's not many - but we get excited with one!) and comments. Also the over 250,000 ePub book downloads of titles this year is exciting considering the limited number of titles we have on offer. There is obviously a demand. We will be adding to this shortly with some exciting new "beyond Gutenberg" additions that are under preparation.

Infogrid Pacific is a small development and services company first and foremost, and our support to the community is made with our personal excess capacity. However we are committed and passionate about the ePub format and new content production and distribution paradigms. Stay tuned. 

Comments

[Laisvunas]

Hi,

Is there somewhere published Azardi roadmap? You promised to publish a roadmap in some earlier post.

[Richard Pipe]

Not a Roadmap!

We have been a little "resource constrained" in the last three months as our lead AZARDI developer is overseas. The focus on AZARDI from our perspective is standards compliant. And we haven't been that brilliant with the internals ourselves. Rather than put up a Roadmap, and because AZARDI is subject to resource availability, I will post a "Trails" ahead view, rather than a roadmap.

We are not particularly interested in another "me too" e-pub reader there is too much potential to imitate the device based e-book readers of the past.

[Carmel]

Hi,

In your home page it is stated that AZARDI 2 is expected to be released by the end of 2010.

Well...

Thanks

[Richard Pipe]

Carmel,

Nice to know someone is looking and keeping us honest. We are expecting to release it before the end of January 2011. That's only a month or two late. That's ahead of schedule for software development. I guess I broke the golden rule of software in even indicating a time frame.

However I will post a feature list shortly. It has grown into a bit of a monster. While it does load and display ePubs, it has morphed into an HTML5 interactive reader as well, focused on education and training and complex content layout and navigation. Too much to go into in a post reply. Also I am not sure a blog called "Using ePub" is the right forum for this hydra.

[Carmel]

Hi,

Thanks for this reply. You made me laugh and that's a great beginning of the week for me.

Good luck with the expected release. I'm looking forward to it.