Thread: Sony 700 (built-in light) vs Cybook (Mobi)
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Old 12-29-2008, 03:08 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by wallcraft View Post
This will never happen, because MobiPocket requires DRM exclusivity on dedicated reading devices. For non-DRMed MOBI, Calibre does a near perfect format shift to ePub or LRF. You can test this using Calibre's own built in reading application or using Sony's Windows ebook Reader (the latest version emulates a PRS-700).

Calibre only imports DRM-free ebooks, but mobidedrm.py can strip MOBI DRM. There are laws against stripping DRM in the US and several other countries. However, it is hard to see who is hurt by format shifting ebooks (with or without DRM) for personal use.
It could easily happen, if Sony and Mobipocket negotiated a deal to do it. I wish they would, and it would probably be in both their best interests to do so. (I too have a large library of .prc files--almost entirely non-DRM, fortunately--which I'm starting to convert with Calibre.) It would improve the market-desirability of the Sony Reader, and would increase the size of the market for mobi-format books.
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