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11-29-2007, 12:57 PM | #31 |
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If there is enough interest we could add a dedicated Ebookwise forum. The only thing we should avoid is creating forums sections that appear abandoned or hardly visited.
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11-30-2007, 10:45 AM | #32 |
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There seems to be plenty of traffic regarding the eBookwise.
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One thing I do not think MobileRead wants is to discourage purchasers by implying that the unit they might want to buy is discontinued and not supported. I have seen a few posts in other forums saying that this forum has it stuck in legacy devices so it must be obsolete. I do realize that it is older than most but it fills a niche in the marketplace for an inexpensive reader. Dale |
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Hmmm I see. Good point. Perhaps we should find a better name to replace "legacy"?
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I'm afraid that you'd run into the same issue no matter what you replaced "legacy" with.
I mean, either it's a 'current' device or it's not ... Unless you want to go with something like "E-Ink Devices" and "LCD Devices" .... |
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Oh, yes, then there's that.
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The devices that aren't still being sold are legacy devices. But the eBw 1150 is still being sold, and a fairly major ebook company (Fictionwise) still has new offerings for it. So I don't think it is a legacy device. It's the least expensive currently available device out there, if I'm not mistaken-- a great gateway device for those who aren't sure about ebooks. I think it deserves its own forum.
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Assuming that you mean being sold by a company rather than "sold on e-bay by random people," that's a very good point. Even if they're selling a huge warehouse full of back-stock they are still selling them ... un-used.
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But its storage media (SM cards) are no longer manufactured; that, to my mind, puts it firmly in the "legacy" camp.
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I'd agree that it puts the media in the "legacy" category, but I'm not sure that convinces me that the device belongs there.
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Is the Sony obsolete since the SD controller card cannot accept the new SD standard SDHC cards? Any while we are talking about this line of reasoning when will the Sony PRS-500 drop to the legacy group. Many of the other eINK devices are even worse on SD card support using controllers and drivers that can only use SD cards up to 1 Meg. These controllers have not been built since 2003/4 I believe. There is no problem with eBookwise memory since eBookwise will still supply the memory in the device so most users never even need to worry about it. Most users are not that technical that it even matters. (unless you happen to brick the card) The criteria should be something other than some of the parts are obsolete or even if the unit is obsolete (PRS-500 case). Dale |
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I am not sure why Fictionwise dropped DRM on the eBookwise device. It originally had some support for this. Does anybody know? Dale |
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