PRS-500 Question: can MobiPocket support somehow/theoretically be implemented into Sony-PRS?

Clemenseken · 01-15-2008, 04:59 AM

Just a question that might be easily answerable by someone in-the-know:

Will it ever be possible anyhow/anyway to add MobiPocket format support into current Sony-PRS devices?
I'd LOVE to have Cybooks dictionary-capabilities in my little sonny

Thanks to anyone who can clarify this issue for me (...others) !!!

HarryT · 01-15-2008, 05:29 AM

Technically possible? Sure - no reason at all why it couldn't be done. Both are Linux devices.

Likely to happen? A probability vanishingly close to zero, I suspect, given that the Sony bookstore and Mobipocket are commercial competitors.

NatCh · 01-15-2008, 12:45 PM

And that it seems that Amazon (Mobipocket's owner) doesn't want to play nice with Sony (they're apparently open to the idea at Sony).

Clemenseken · 01-16-2008, 04:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NatCh

And that it seems that Amazon (Mobipocket's owner) doesn't want to play nice with Sony (they're apparently open to the idea at Sony).

Hmmm ! ...interesting.

I certainly would be willing to pay, let's say, a hundred dollars if I could get a MobyPocket reader for my Sony - especially if this was combined with a bonus at Amazon's shop.

I here-and-now even think/promise I'd pay that amount to anybody (not only to Amazon) who successfully could get it to my Sony.
(Maybe Sony could make a deal with Amazon, adapt Mobypocket themselves, then sell it to us PRS-users - ?!?)

01-15-2008, 04:59 AM	#1
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01-15-2008, 05:29 AM	#2
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383043 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Technically possible? Sure - no reason at all why it couldn't be done. Both are Linux devices. Likely to happen? A probability vanishingly close to zero, I suspect, given that the Sony bookstore and Mobipocket are commercial competitors.

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NatCh Gizmologist Posts: 11,615 Karma: 929550 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Republic of Texas Embassy at Jackson, TN Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3	And that it seems that Amazon (Mobipocket's owner) doesn't want to play nice with Sony (they're apparently open to the idea at Sony).

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