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Originally Posted by Logseman
Sony is not the device which supports most formats. Other smaller brands release more capable firmwares. A look to the Matrix will tell you that.
Besides, ePub support is no good if buying and reading ePub books is much more inconvenient than buying .azw ones. I may be an advocate for OSS and open formats, but I'm not blind to the facts. |
Agree totally.
ePub has to be the open format, not one saddled with proprietary DRM, if it's going to compete with Amazon and .azw.
VHS won over Beta way back when because you had a choice: Beta, which worked only on Sony machines (they much later...too much later...added Toshiba), or VHS which worked on
everything else.
Right now, ePub is like having six flavors of VHS, each married to a particular brand of player, which offers no competitive advantage.
Looks to me as if the other players are happy to squabble among themselves for Amazon's leftovers, like dogs at a banquet, rather than mounting any kind of unified front. And my own little dog, the Kobo, may starve to death.