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Gentlefolk;
I am a newbie both to this forum and to eReading, so please, if I transgress, accept this as the explanation. I have been through more format wars than I care to remember: DR-DOS vs. IBMDOS vs. MS_DOS. BetaMax vs. VHS. Now its Blu-ray vs HDTV or whatever (haven't gotten that far yet in my technology). Cell phones that work in the US don't work in Europe or the East. 5.25 in. floppies were superceded by 3.5in floppies, superceded by CDs, superceded by Flash, Compuserve's email didnt play well with other email formats, and eventually disappeared....and so it goes. All this is obvious... what is discouraging is the time interval for ONE format to appear, so we don't have to purchase a product second-guessing if it is still going to work in six months. These readers are not cheap by any standard, some just cost less than others. That Kindle is dissing ePub does not surprise me, although I do not enjoy that approach. That Sony is dissing azw/mobi does not surprise me, although I do not enjoy that approach. Formats don't win marketing wars.. content wins marketing wars. And we all know this... none of this is anything but recaps all are too familiar with. It is a pity that simple truths get lost in marketing battles. <sigh> Don |
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An eBook reader of the future should have lots of options where the user can specify their preferences and these would override the internal book settings. One of the preferences would be to keep the book settings for folks that really want this so nothing is lost. The defaults would be optimized for the average user so a new user wouldn't even have to know about the settings until they decided they needed to change some. With the proper design an eBook can be easy to use and offer customization for power users. Good eBook readers haven't arrived yet. Dale |
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I think (I think a lot, nothing useful, though) that the way to win the "Format war" is to have devices that accept a wide range of formats. So, if you wanted a Kindle book (awz) you downloaded the Kindle Reader (with PID) to your device, and then you can purchase Kindle books from Amazon. You want a MOBI book? Download the Mobipocket app. to your device and well..... you get the picture, right?
I have been reading mobi / lit for years, on and off as I get a device (mostly PDA). From my perspective, Copyright seems to be Amazon's big bug-bear, and a propritary format avaialble from a US address (and credit card) is a way to attempt to keep this in check and keep Best sellers on thier lists. With Flash memory being cheaper every day, if you had a device that had say 1 Gig of system memory for OS and reader programs ONLY+ an extra Gig for on-board storage of docs / books/ audio, then add SD expansion for additional content......oh, and kill PDF, for fiction Ebooks, it's almost had it's day, though it does make a neat container for re-conversion to other formats....... |
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![]() And I think that E-ink helps to solve the battery issue, though ghosting and contrast seem to be the big issues this tech has to overcome. I don't think colour is going to be the huge seller it's promoted to be, though I wonder what the refresh "flash" of a page change would look like on a colour model...if it was the RGB version, would you have 3 flashes, or would it all go black on a page turn... ![]() Just musing.... |
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And advertising, of course, which will bump up the availability of content. As to formats, I personally think color and larger screen sizes will only reaffirm the supremacy of PDF. Even with the drive to "skew" the poll, by suggesting that people vote for EPUB or MOBI, PDF still won, with a very wide margin. PDF already has wide public acceptance, and it will allow complex layouts and advertising to be served as intended. The new mobile SDK allows reflow for text material, so it serves fine small-screen devices. It's over, IMO. |
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![]() I still think the Tech is a little way off for colour, and I think the 1st (even 2nd) Gen devices are going to be prohibitavly expensive and not as impressive as we need them to be. I don't want my books to be animated or have video capablities, I have a desk top and Netbook PC for that. I still just want a book to be a book, good old beige background and Black text, whether it's E-ink or dead tree or LCD TTF.... |
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