[DawnFalcon]

Originally Posted by Sonist

Uhm, the general public doesn't really care, they stream stuff like Hulu, or Netflix, which in fact do use the same formats as TV broadcasts.

Really? Cite please where podcasters use ATSC or DVB please.

Nope, what Ahi wants may come to exist when Apple, or someone else, introduces a large-screen, color device, which will do for tablets/readears what the iPhone did for smart phones.

Introduce a marketplace in which it's almost impossible to get your product noticed and driving down prices to unsustainable levels? Oh, and let's not forget it's a single sales channel with moderately arbitrary censorship. It's really not easy to make money from an iPhone app unless it's at the very top.

And again, large-screen is not what an awful lot of people want from an e-reader.

But, what you want, already exists, and has existed from the most primitive times of desktop computing. It's called plain text. And no, it's not the future.

Really? Cite please where plain text standard has pop-up text support, support for US/UK spelling english differences, embedable bookmarks and remote text pushing, to name a few of the things I want and have previously mentioned in this thread.

'nuf said.... Do you even have experience with an ereader?

Yes, although I don't have one at the present time.

I bet, you don't get why people want Flash and Java too....

I understand why people use them. And quite often misuse them, too, creating sites which they call Web 2.0 but are actually just a mess to navigate.

As to apps and games, certainly, ActionScript is very useful. Java if you're looking at the mobile market certainly - except the iPhone, of course.

Uhm, PDF is one of the formats, from which you generally strip the DRM rather easily.

So as well as immoral (buying DRM'ed content) actions, you want me to take illegal ones too? No. Just no. I'd rather buy dead tree format, thanks (This is why most of my ebooks are from Baen, it's not because I don't read wisely, but because Baen has sensible standards and prices for ebooks).

I am not married to PDF, but I am worried, that another new format, like ePub, which is not really robust enough to support very complex layouts and is therefore destined to be another dead-end, will only confuse the market, and turn people off e-books.

So you're saying that XHTML, the base of ePuB, can't do complex formats? The standards committee would be very interested to hear that.


ahi - So I'm deranged for replying to your statements? Well them, I'll be general - again, you cannot ignore todays limitations in favour of some future utopic time, you have to deal with the situation as in the here and no and publisher's and adobe's actual actions.