Thread: Astak Mentor eBook readers with WiFi and Touchscreen (read-only)
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Old 05-14-2008, 02:28 PM   #246
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
The problem there is eReader. The format is abysmal. The format is designed for palm sized screens. Most eReader eBooks have no paragraph indents and line spaces between paragraphs. This ruins the reading experience. Makes it not nice on a larger screen. What would be nice is to have Mobipocket as the main DRM format and then have eReader/LIT/BBeB as non-DRM formats available.
Yeah, but I can't see Amazon giving this away anymore, not with the Kindle at stake.

They have no incentive to make Mobipocket available anymore to other e-reading devices since they probably feel (and rightly so IMHO) that a cheaper device will canabalize sales of the Kindle.
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