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Originally Posted by Teddman
There's forever, and then there's three years or so that Sony's bookstore has been online. And as I posted on page 2, there was actually a guarantee of sorts that Sony's LRF/LRX format would continue to be supported by Sony's readers and stores, per their press release.
I don't think anyone would be complaining if Sony simply updated their reader firmware so that it correctly supported ePub. Replacing a native format with an inferior format (as displayed on their readers) is a bad business decision any way you slice it.
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It isn't so much that epub is inferior to LRF/LRX, but that the implementation of the viewer is substandard even by Adobe's definition using ADE. Even the most recent ADE is not fully epub compliant. The fact is they even purposely , but needlessly, deviate from the standard.
Perhaps Adobe can't force them to update or else, but they should be at least suggesting that their licensees update their firmwares. Most definitely such shoddy support will not only affect the ebook reader manufactures, but also the publishers as well. Especially if they can't be certain how their ebooks will be displayed on a multitude of readers. But considering the number of typos and other problems that publishers seem to let slip, I don't think they have been to concerned about it in the past.
I would like to see more travel guides in epub format. The formatting in these books can be as difficult as it is in some textbooks. Publishers aren't going to want to deal with the frustrations of how great their book might look on one reader, but find out that not only does it look lousy on another reader, it also has information missing because the version of the ADE engine displays the <table> tag or some other tag very poorly. Let alone the other problems ADE has with such things as soft hyphens which would allow for a much better full justification experience.
Etienne66