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Old 05-22-2008, 06:52 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by pilotbob View Post
I'm guess you have to pay to license it. Which doesn't make sense to me since eReader would sell more books if more devices supported it.

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Yeah, but you have to pay to license everything else as well.

eReader seems to be doing pretty well in the sales department. Their parent company, Fictionwise, boasts 40,000 e-book sales per month. (I know because I was looking to get my children's e-book listed.) Even if eReader only did half that volume, they must have been attractive to Fictionwise to buy for something.

Unless they are more expensive to license than say Windows Vista, I can't see any company not wanting to make sure their e-reading device has the maximum opportunity to sell.

CyBook has Mobipocket support. Sony went it alone with a proprietary software as did Amazon.

For all the other folks in the game, they've had to pony up the cash for the license or risk sitting on the sidelines until their game is over because their device can't do as much as the others can.
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