Thread: Can e-Publishing Overcome Copyright Concerns?
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Old 06-27-2008, 02:11 PM   #445
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
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.
Mobi isn't the only one. eReader suffers a similar handicap.

I read Mobi files on a Palm OS PDA with a 200 mhz CPU and 128MB of RAM. Maybe Mobi could support ePub directly on the device, and maybe not. Same for eReader. And what about folks using Symbian based smartphones, or something like the Blackberry with a Java based setup?

Direct support of ePub would be problematic, and I really can't see conversion from ePub to native format on the device.

This is another reason why I think ePub has a better chance as an intermediate format used by publishers, which can be converted to the format the reader will use.
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