Don, yes I did run it and play with it for a bit.
The 3 of us are not normal PC users though, we are a small percentage of the people on the internet right now. Most people might will find this too hard to use or wouldn't want to run a protected mode .exe from a conspiracy theorist.
A web based ebook can keep the top-secret look-and-feel and anyone who can use the internet can read the book. You get a lot more people that way.
Ruthless , you are correct, the software does work on multiple platforms now. But it was written for a single platform and relies on emulation. A web based multi-platform application is different. You have to tweak your css and javascript to work on 3 different browser engines. Gecko (firefox), Webkit (Safari, Konqueror), and the other one that most people use that is full of security problems which I shall not mention unless they pay me to advertise for them.