Welcome to MobileRead, bobl. There's a lot of information on electronic readers of all sorts around here.
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Originally Posted by bobl
Sony's reader costs less than $40 to manufacture at mature volumes so why is it being so greedy on margin and greedy with proprietary standards. Take out Sony's software and hardware for managing its proprietary store and the cost could go sub $25.
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Best guess on the screen alone is $150~$200, so it's not the software that's keeping it above the $25 range.
The Reader handles native (as in
not converted) RTF, TXT, PDF, MP3, ACC, PNG, JPG, GIF and several other file types that escape me at the moment.
Yes it also handles Sony's proprietary BBeB format, but eReader, Mobipocket, MSReader and pretty much all the rest have proprietary formats, and they
require that files be converted to use them on their software/hardware. Should they be chastised for doing
more than most everybody else has done in this area?
Would you consider the iRex iLiad to be open? It doesn't handle as many formats as the Sony does.
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