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Adding the .lit format might be nice but this may be a time when a company like Ectaco
needs to be selective as to where it spends its limited product development resources.
This seems to be a time when technology has provided a large number of development opportunities. They have to try and guess the cost to benefit ratio for each of those
options they have to pursue. They have to decide whether being an also ran in the large
color bookreader market of the future, is the more viable course -or- if it's better to be
the leader in the pocket Translating Dictionary/eBook Reader market. Or if any other of
the many possible directions for their company makes the most sense.
With the ePub DRM already having been demonstrated to work on the hardware -and-
it being a format that a company (B&N) with whom they have already partnered, is using,
-and- it being a format in wide use by public libraries; I would expect that to be next on
their list. It has the most immediate "bang for the buck" of the development options on
hand at the moment, IMHO.
[Then they should get right to work adding GPS and multi-lingual/translating maps.]
Luck;
Ken
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