While the upcoming
Adobe Digital Editions 1.5 release is
not exactly latest news, PC Mag has an
interesting commentary on what Adobe thinks of the Amazon Kindle launch:
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Ironically, Adobe executives criticized the closed nature of the rival Amazon Kindle e-book platform -- even as their own Digital Editions customers are currently locked into a single device, albeit a PC. An Adobe spokesman also noted that the company is a partner of Sony and its existing Sony Reader, which can display .PDF files.
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"Right now the Kindle is a closed platform, as you're aware," said Bill McCoy, general manager of the ePublishing business at Adobe, in an interview. "It's a fixed device; content can't be read on any other device, such as an iPhone. It's a closed ecosystem, even more so than iTunes and the iPod."
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So what else do we got? PDF of course. And ePub. Let the e-book death match begin.