iRex iLiad owner calls for DRM support

[doctorow]

Originally Posted by Gameboy70

For commercial books, it's a no-brainer that Sony is easily better positioned financially to contract with mainstream publishers than Irex, DRM or not. I don't see Irex having the will or the resources to change direction anytime soon.

Let's also not forget that to some the Sony is better suited because it's more portable than the iLiad (compare dimensions and weight in the reader matrix).

[Paethon]

Originally Posted by Gameboy70

I agree. I find E Ink readers attractive for the ability to read online content offline -- i.e. the equivalent of printing it out. The iLiad is better suited toward this end than the Sony Reader due to its HTML support and 1024 x 768 resolution for portrait-mode PDFs.

For commercial books, it's a no-brainer that Sony is easily better positioned financially to contract with mainstream publishers than Irex, DRM or not. I don't see Irex having the will or the resources to change direction anytime soon.

I think iLiads time will come when the sources and the sdk are released. With the big screen and the stylus-support you can do all sorts of nice things

[Jorgen]

pitcher23,

true, but their low sales are due to high prices and/or DRM. Eliminate DRM, cut the prices and piracy will fall and sales go up. The alternative for many seems to be not paper books, but free sources: for example pirated books and Project Gutenberg.