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Old 05-15-2019, 05:14 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by kacir View Post
At one moment, LRX was the most popular ebook format on all e-ink readers in the world ;-).
It was also the reason why Sony Librié business model failed.
Back then you couldn't load your own texts on your own reader, only those purchased from Sony (in LRX) could be read. And even those had an expiry date. That was too much even for Japanese customers. In a desperate attempt to save Librié, Sony published software that allowed users to load their own texts on their own readers, but it was too late.
If I remember correctly.

This makes me glad I didn't get into ebooks until the 505 was "established"...
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