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In a lot of formats, you can be really experimental and see what would happen.

I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean.

But we also think that we've got more quite alot more support than any new format has ever had.

I think it's very easy to get corrupted.

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want.

It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.

I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.

So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue.