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Originally Posted by HarryT
Is eReader format really that popular? I've absolutely no "feel" for how "big" or otherwise it is, unfortunately, never having used it myself. I have a vague feeling that it at least used to be mainly a "Palm thing" (is that right?) and I was never "into" Palm devices.
You're right - if there are a lot of people out there with large collections of eReader format books, then being able to read them on a new device could indeed be a selling factor.
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eReader began as Peanut Reader. Peanut Reader was created by Peanut Press, an early ebook publisher targeting Palm OS PDAs. It uses a markup format called Palm Markup Language, which allows fonts, text attributes, hyperklinks and embedded images. It can also display Palm "doc" files -- ASCII files compressed to save space in RAM, and decompressed on the fly by the reader.
Palm bought Peanut Press and made them the Palm Digital Media division. An older freeware version of the reader called Palm Reader was provided with many Palm devices.
Palm sold the Digital Media Division to Motricity, Inc., a B2B mobile content solutions provider. Motricity renamed it eReader, and made the website eReader.com. Motricity eventually did a port of the eReader viewer to Windows Mobile for use on PocketPC devices, and was supposedly considering a version for Blackberry.
There's a fair amount of content out there in eReader format, DRM and otherwise. It would be nice it it could be read on things like the Sony Reader.
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Dennis