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Originally Posted by sonnyred
Hi leekeen, I think the important phrase here is dedicated readers. In the past I think it was a mish-mash of PDA's or PocketPC's but now with the dedicated readers I feel the publishing industry has to take notice. More people like me who are not that good with computers finally have a product that is easy to understand. And with the demand of both the Sony and the CyBook then they must be taking notice. I feel that the next step would be one format that could be understood by all readers. I've got a huge amount of LIT books on my PC but why should I have to convert them to LRF or the Mobipocket format? I should just be able to buy a book and put it on any e-reader device I want without converting anything (maybe for the future?). Anyway I think it's an expanding market and if I had any capital to invest I would probably put it into eBooks.
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Just a comment on your "huge amount of LIT books on your PC". I had quite a few books for Microsoft Reader on my Windows XP computer that recently crashed. I bought a new computer with Vista on it. Then I had to reformat the XP to recover the computer. I had put copies of my purchased ebooks from Amazon on CDs as backups for a crash eventuality. The Vista computer will not open these lit files on CD's. So I tried on the reformated XP. Had to download the Microsoft Reader and activate it. Still no luck. I didn't realize that these books DRM on them when I purchased them (silly me) and thought that since I had purchased them legally through Amazon a while back that they would be available to me on CD. Looks like I'm out of luck!! No more DRM site's for me. I've been bitten enough. Lots of luck on your lit files and hope your computer doesn't crash!!!