MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Do you like how ePub books look on your Sony Reader?

Teddman · 01-04-2010, 08:33 PM

The Sony store is crap now, blunty put. They might as well be selling plain text files without any formatting.

How you can roll out a store-wide switch to a format that doesn't render properly on your readers is beyond me. Fix the ePub rendering in the firmware first! At least lrf/lrx was pleasing to the eye if it was proprietary.

Is anyone actually doing QC in the Reader division? They'll never gain ground on Amazon when you have to remove DRM and jump through hoops just to get books to look right. The average consumer is not going to bother with the software tools necessary, they want it to work right upon sale.

This is just sad.

01-04-2010, 08:33 PM	#65
Teddman Addict Posts: 242 Karma: 695 Join Date: Jun 2009 Device: Sony PRS-505	The Sony store is crap now, blunty put. They might as well be selling plain text files without any formatting. How you can roll out a store-wide switch to a format that doesn't render properly on your readers is beyond me. Fix the ePub rendering in the firmware first! At least lrf/lrx was pleasing to the eye if it was proprietary. Is anyone actually doing QC in the Reader division? They'll never gain ground on Amazon when you have to remove DRM and jump through hoops just to get books to look right. The average consumer is not going to bother with the software tools necessary, they want it to work right upon sale. This is just sad. Last edited by Teddman; 01-04-2010 at 08:37 PM.