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micomicon:
I don't completely understand what DE is... I mean, isn't it just epub? or maybe it's software that plays epub files? epub's cool because it's supposed to be a standard and all, but it's just another file format right? and then the ones adobe sells are encrypted to only work on one computer?
My point was that I don't imagine companies like sony and amazon supporting a DRM format that will take away from revenue they derive from another DRM model. I think DE plays unencrypted epub files too right? Maybe they just mean those?
I imagine everyone will eventually want to support the epub formats, .. but that's just like supporting txt or html... not really anything exceptional or even difficult. I just looked in an epub file and it IS just zipped html with some really ugly looking extra meta data sprawled across three XML files. Seems kinda lame to me actually. Maybe there's something I don't understand about what's involved,.. but I feel like they should have been able to make it look a little nicer if that's all they were going to do.
So I'm searching around to see what you mean. I see one of the "ambiguous" quotes you seem to be referring to saying sony will "embed Adobe Digital Editions technology into its portable reader" The "technology" behind DE is epub though... a "standardization" just like pdf is a "standardization." I hate PDF files.
Wasn't mobipocket talking about moving to epub too? That doesn't make the encrypted versions compatible any more than mobi and azw are compatible (even though they are inherently the same format). Everyone thought the kindle would support mobi pocket books since amazon owns mobipocket. It does support them. Unencrypted ones.
and even if I'm wrong about the meaning of DE, they could just outright lie to us. If they're being ambiguous that could be an indication.
Hopefully I'm wrong... but it seems it wouldn't make business sense for them to give you as much as you seem to think they will. It's a conflict of interests. Even if they do do it, there'd be an incentive to do it poorly. Maybe after the connect store isn't profitable anymore, and they've stop selling sony books anyways?
I don't like the idea of DE anyways. I feel like Adobe writes crap software. Some flash based bloat to buy books with. blech.
Are you sure the cybook mobipocket deal is exclusive? I wasn't aware of that. sucks if it is. The Hanlin/jinke people said they have a contract to support mobipocket, even though they also have a proprietary wolf format,.... so from that we know that mobipocket isn't by necessity an exclusive contract.
All in all what I'm saying is that it seems like it makes more business sense for companies like jinke/hanlin, bookeen/cybook, or iliad to be nice to us regarding DRM content than it does for companies like amazon and sony. ... and so I'd favor the companies that have more incentives to be nice to us.
besides. Amazon and Sony have shit on us before right?
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