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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Maybe... but if publishers don't want the extra work of multiple formats, multiple downloads, etc--which they don't--they just won't.
Yes, my scenario requires every device maker to create the appropriate software for compatibility with standardized formats... but that's not unheard-of in the HW/SW business. Just look at all the e-book devices that have PDF readers. And the first devices to achieve auto-convert, and can tell publishers to just create one format, the pubs will love it.
So: My scenario isn't ready today; and yours isn't being used today. I guess we'll see which one kicks off first!
Very true... why convert, when you can just read e-pub? Though that's logical, there will always be a reader maker that will feel their reader does something special with content (like cue-ing up theme music or mood lighting with certain passages, or something silly like that), so it requires a proprietary format to do it, and thereby must be converted.
I'd guess there will eventually be native ePub readers, and the uber-special Mood-Lighting, John Williams Orchestral Sampler Readers that must convert.
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A more pressing need for convert is the one posed by Mobipocket. They have a multitude of platforms, many on low horsepower machines. Converting on a PC is an easy solution for them and it is available today with the 6.2 release of the windows version. ePub support requires a fair amount of horsepower to be compliant. I think this is an oversight of the committee.
Dale