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Originally Posted by daffy4u
I'm not sure what is meant by "severely limited". Here are the formats for the Sony and the Kindle (I've removed the proprietary formats for both).
Sony (native support)
PDF, EPUB, TXT, RTF, JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, MP3, AAC
Kindle (native support)
PRC/MOBI (non DRM), TXT, MP3, AA, JPEG, GIF
(Amazon or self-conversion) DOC, HTML, PNG, BMP and PDF
IMO, there is only one additional format that is lacking... native pdf support. There are some documents that just work better as pdf's. Mobi seems to be the dominant format and ePub has not yet come into it's own, so I don't understand what else is needed.
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Perhaps I should have said natively supported.
For the kindle it is mobi or txt and anything else is converted by emailing it and receiving the converted file back but with Sony everything listed is natively supported (no conversion neccessary). I can't understand why Amazon didn't provide the conversion program on a CD that you get when you buy the Kindle.
I wonder why no Ebook readers read DRM lit at present. Maybe Microsoft don't want any support ?
I guess it is not a big issue if you only buy from Amazon but having multiple formats available to you bring competition hence price reductions.