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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
... I think others here thought Sony's implementation might be different from that and that DE might become an ebook format supported on its own. If that were possible, whether Sony implements it or not, we would want to see Adobe DE supported by the proposed multiformat reader, correct?
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I'm pretty sure that Sony plans to support DE/.epub directly -- I don't
know it, but reading between the lines.
Ideally, I'd want to see reading devices that support .epub (assuming it ends up being the "standard" format -- I think it's got a great shot at it), and probably not much else (I think we'd always want TXT, DOC, RTF, HTML, etc.), but with all the existing titles either being offered for download to previous purchasers in .epub, or with some sort of conversion apps appearing to convert the existing stuff to .epub. At that point, with a truly
standard format, the need to support a bunch of other formats would dwindle and disappear.
However, since you seem to be asking why I didn't include .epub in the poll (a fair question), the reason is that it isn't an "old" format, and I was focusing more on those, that's all.
