It's a good move Sony made ; one not so far associated with how they dealt with the mp3 format. They took long to accept it, and thus let other companies get ahead in that department.
Sony is trying to avoid that same mistake with eBooks by switching to a format most, if not all (Amazon, we're looking at you) supports. The theory being that eBooks you purchase from ANY website in ePub format would work on the Sony, but not everyone follows the same DRM scheme (B&N, we're looking at you).
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Originally Posted by Amalthia
I think epub looks like crap compared to LRF because in epub the page numbers are displayed on the side margin which interfers with the text on the screen. And there is no text justification.
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Now, it depends. Generally, I see the switch to ePub as a good thing. However, as was the case with the BBeB format, where all the eBooks I would buy from Sony had the same layout and format, the ePub eBooks are all over the place. No margins, large margins and what looks like different fonts. There's no standard at all on how, in the end, ePub "looks", it seems.
Which is why I say that the page numbers displayed on the side margin depends on the eBook ; one that has no margin will interfere, one that has large ones won't... No standard.