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Old 12-06-2009, 01:25 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Sheikspeare View Post
I've just been wondering why a company liked Adobe hasn't shown signs of getting involved in the race to produce the best eReader.

They own all the rights to PDF formatting, features and so on. I guess, in a sense all of the top ereaders with PDF functionality (Kindle, Sony, iRex etc) have to strike a deal with Adobe at some point

Just a thought...
Note that PDF has been an open standard (ISO 32000-1) since 2007. Adobe have no more rights to it than anyone else any more, although they undoubtedly do have the expertise.

Why don't they build a reader? Probably for the same reason that Microsoft don't build PCs - there's more money to be made from licensing their software to the people who do build them.
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