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Abelturd · 05-09-2009, 06:33 PM

I can't wrap my head around bookeen's marketing strategy. Now it seems so complicated that I don't even dare to have a guess at whether it's good or the exact opposite.
I don't understand the concept of two fw versions. For me the natural thing to do would be not to split efforts on two different fw versions but to add features to the firmware they already have and improve it as much as possible. If they really deem the epub support so crucial, they could keep the well established mobi drm and add non-drm epub on top of that and see how users are going to accept it. Then if the reception would be good, they could switch from mobi drm to epub drm.
I just hope they won't throw everything away for epub. I want to keep my dictionaries. I want variety of formats supported, I want new features besides folders.

05-09-2009, 06:33 PM	#51
Abelturd Little Fuzzy Soldier Posts: 580 Karma: 5711 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Nowhere in particular. Device: cybook gen3, htc hero, ipaq 214	I can't wrap my head around bookeen's marketing strategy. Now it seems so complicated that I don't even dare to have a guess at whether it's good or the exact opposite. I don't understand the concept of two fw versions. For me the natural thing to do would be not to split efforts on two different fw versions but to add features to the firmware they already have and improve it as much as possible. If they really deem the epub support so crucial, they could keep the well established mobi drm and add non-drm epub on top of that and see how users are going to accept it. Then if the reception would be good, they could switch from mobi drm to epub drm. I just hope they won't throw everything away for epub. I want to keep my dictionaries. I want variety of formats supported, I want new features besides folders. Last edited by Abelturd; 05-09-2009 at 06:40 PM.