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Interesting article by Joe Clark about the difficulties in marking up ebooks. ePub (which the iPad will use) is just plain HTML, but surprisingly few publishers know how to write good code. See also the sidebar, which shows some examples of poor typography in the ebook version of China Miéville’s The City & the City.

Apple’s list of the most popular iTunes songs is almost all recent music (notably excepting “Don’t Stop Believin’”). Consider that Coldplay, Lady GaGa, and the Black Eyed Peas are all artists from the iPod era, so people are much less likely to have owned them on CD.

The next version of Outlook takes a major step back in Web compatibility.