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Thank you for your comments and advice.
Wallcrat, I'll do as you suggest and open a new thread on eb20, but will respond here to the comments raised.
Zoom (text-resizing) is coming. It's being tested and de-bugged now but is still a few weeks away. Another big thing that's missing is text-to-speech (read aloud), which will be quite a development cycle and there's no date on that at this stage.
We'll add the qualification to the claim about "from any computer anywhere".
MRSP, we are working to make it possible for people to use eb20 on every conceivable device, either online or offline. As for your broader point about reading fiction on a PC, I sure take your point. The puzzling thing is, though, the number of people who do just that.
We really need to get a better handle on why they're choosing to do leisure reading on a computer. There's a fair amount of anecdotal evidence, but it's time we had some thing more. We do know, for example, that a lot of people are reading fiction during work hours. Is this a market we should be pursuing? As an employer myself, oughtn't I have some qualms about that?
GregS, our developers are all firefox freaks, and eb20 does seem to be working OK on that platform. Where we do have issues occasionally is when someone forgets to test in IE before loading a new build.
For downloaded files, we're using Adobe Content Server, MS Digital Asset Server and MobiPocket, depending on which format you choose. For eb20 online reader, we take the same files supplied by the publishers and spin them all off into the new eb20 format. It is indeed a neat trick, but it was a lot harder to do than we expected.
montsnmags, I'm glad you like the "Immersive Reading" mode for reading fiction. I'm trying to think of another name for that thing. David Rothman thinks it sounds naff.
Thanks again for your thoughts.
Stephen
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