Dear ALL:
For months I have been saying DRM is coming and you all have been incredibly patient with me on this. Finally I have some concrete facts:
1. ALL new Mentor and EZ Readers WILL have Adobe Digital Editions pre-ported.
2. Another batch of EZ Readers will be arriving the last week of June and will have the pre-port.
3. The first 500 white and 500 black Mentor Lites will arrive the second week of JULY all pre-ported with ADE.
4. The first Mentor Lites will not have the MP3 working. The factory is just wrapping up the negotiation with the MP3 format people. I expect that by the first week in August we will have the MP3 firmware upgrade ready for the Mentor Lite.
5. ALL of those who have purchased either Mobipocket or Non-DRM versions of the EZ Reader 6 inch in the past... we will have the Adobe Digital Editions firmware upgrade up on the new website (
www.goEZebook.com) as soon as the new website is finally finished (which I expect to be the third week of July or sooner). FINALLY you will have ADE.
6. All those who have Mobipocket EZ Readers... you have a choice to make. You can either keep your device just as it is and not do the ADE firmware upgrade... or do the ADE upgrade and it will erase your Mobi DRM. Your Mobi Non-DRM will be fine... but you will lose access to your Mobi DRM books. You cannot have BOTH on the device as Mobi demands exclusivity. As you know, we had to follow Amazon's line on this... so please do not blame Astak. They set the law.
7. We still hope to have the Fictionwise eReader DRM pre-ported and as a firmware upgrade sometime in early August.
I think the vast majority of you should be very pleased with this announcement!