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Old 01-30-2010, 03:26 AM   #15
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At the moment it's either ePUB or dictionaries. It's not Bookeen's fault, there are at least two reasons for that:

1. You dictionaries are most probably in Mobipocket format. Due to contractual reasons (Mobipocket's policy), Bookeen cannot include both the "official" ePUB and Mobipocket readers (with DRM) at the same time. In theory, they could develop their own readers for non-DRM stuff, but I don't blame them for not taking the effort. Anyway, they could never have DRM'd dictionaries with DRM'd ePUB.

2. There is currently no accepted standard for dictionaries or other reference works in ePUB. That means reading software cannot know "how" to look up words or entries in a dictionary. Therefore, publishers haven't published dictionaries in ePUB format, and reader's don't include a dictionary lookup function.
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