Thread: How many different shops have you bought ebooks from?
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Old 01-04-2020, 03:55 PM   #31
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Are you sure you never bought any from Sony?
Nope.
I had a BeBook in those days.
(Philips Velo 500 and HP JORNADA 560 before that. The HP was sweeet! Then a DELL AXIM.)

The BeBook (sort-of) supported everything, mobi, epub, rtf, html, and (especially important) lit. By the time stores stopped supporting lit, mobi had been DeDrm'ed, and converting both to epub was easy. (MsReader was practically epub 0.9)

By the time I got my Sony they had pivoted to epub and it had been hacked to handle Kindle formats as well as epubs so the Sony store was non-competitive. I do have a couple disks full of lrfs I bought from Black Mask.

In some parallel universe out there Sony trusted LRF and didn't drink the interoperability kool-aid and are still major players. Same universe where B&N stuck with FictionWise. Didn't save them, though. They blew it in every universe.
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