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Originally Posted by Nate the great
The Jetbook lite doesn't have eReader. It has Epub support. And are you sure that the eSlick has eReader? I know it was supposed to get it at some point, but it never did. In stead it has Epub.
From what I can tell, eReader development is dead. B&N seems to have made a lateral move into Epub.
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Regarding the ESlick, the press release says:
"eSlick customers will now be able to view documents in ePub and eReader (PDB) in additional to previously supported PDF and Text formats. The support for ePub and eReader enable customers to read books downloaded from any website which supports these reading formats."
This clearly distinguishes between EPub and EReader formats, even giving the .pdb extention.
The Jetbook Lite page on Ectaco says:
"Support of DRM format through Barnes & Nobles"
So this may be as you suggest: EReader DRM implemented on top of an EPUB formatted book. Given that there are currently no EReader DRMed EPUBs available, I would be quite annoyed if the JB lite did not support standard EReader books, which are, in point of fact, all that can be downloaded from Barnes and Nobles.