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Old 04-01-2008, 07:18 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by wallcraft View Post
Without 3rd party conversion software Sony would be out of the e-book business by now, but this software provides enough "openness" for the PRS-505 to be viable.
But that makes nonsense of the "closed" comment. My feeling is that we're still in early adopter territory where most of the users will tweak stuff to get what they want. Just look at the resistance to DRM.

My expectation is that over time the conversion software with most readers will get broader, and we will probably see a common, open format that's wide accepted. The open will be driven at least in part by Gutenberg and other open, free sources, and partly by book pirates (including those who rip pbooks that they own).
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