10-10-2007, 01:34 PM | #16 |
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10-10-2007, 02:16 PM | #17 |
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In my experience price will always be at a premium to the $US price.
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10-10-2007, 02:35 PM | #18 |
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I also think the CyBook looks better since it supports more formats natively, there is a possibility for a SDK and it weight 100g less.
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During the recent conference call, the Sony rep commented that they were willing to entertain such a move, but that others might not be willing to go along with it -- I took that to mean that the folks who control the mobi reader software may not want their reader on Sony's hardware. Hadrian has apparently commented elsewhere (on TeleRead, I believe it was) that Mobi/Amazon doesn't want its reader app on any device that also has other reader apps on it -- they want mobi only devices rather than mobi & anything else devices. |
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10-10-2007, 02:46 PM | #21 |
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Ah, there's Hadrien now -- any elaboration on Mobi's attitude that you can offer? Or am I mis-attributing here?
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10-10-2007, 03:06 PM | #22 |
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Yep I said that's it common business behavior to sign such a deal. I don't think it's Mobi's attitude only: the same rules would likely apply for DRMed PDF files for example (the iRiver reader ?).
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Sure, I didn't mean to imply that it was only Mobi!
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That's strange, the interest of Amazon should be to make their DRM format a standard. That said, I won't be surprise if the kindle comes with a new DRM format, inspired from mobi but not compatible. This speculation is purely based on the fact that companies often end-up taking the worst decision possible. |
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Well, in that case, I don't think FBReader much counts (for this particular point only — I'm not commenting on FBReader itself).
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