MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Sharp looking to push oddball XMDF format on new LCD readers

charleski · 07-22-2010, 04:30 PM

Of course when we're talking about Japan, 'ebooks' largely means comics, rather than long-form text.

It looks as if the format situation is just as fractured as it is in the West: ebookjapan uses a .ebi format while Papyless uses XMDF, and there seem to be a range of other formats as well like T-Time. Both EBI and XMDF seem to be closed proprietary formats whose main aim is to accommodate DRM.

07-22-2010, 04:30 PM	#4
charleski Wizard Posts: 1,196 Karma: 1281258 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: PRS-505	Of course when we're talking about Japan, 'ebooks' largely means comics, rather than long-form text. It looks as if the format situation is just as fractured as it is in the West: ebookjapan uses a .ebi format while Papyless uses XMDF, and there seem to be a range of other formats as well like T-Time. Both EBI and XMDF seem to be closed proprietary formats whose main aim is to accommodate DRM.