Slashdot Mirror
Adobe Takes On Microsoft Role In E-book Market
ericatcw writes "Barnes & Noble, Sony and other e-book vendors may have the manufacturing muscle, but the brains directing the challenge against Amazon.com's Kindle eBook Reader is Adobe Systems. Like Microsoft, Adobe has built a formidable ecosystem of partners to whom it supplies software such as its encryption/DRM-creating Adobe Content Server. Adobe paints Amazon as being like Apple: secretive and playing badly with others. Amazon argues it just ain't so, and takes a jab, along with other critics, at Adobe's alleged open-ness."
There certainly won't be a market until the prices of the readers come down. $300? You gotta be crazy. Even at $50 they would in any case likely never entice me completely away from the real thing.
Yes, actually the Kindle by Amazon is doing really well from what I have heard.
"The two most abundant elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity." -Harlan Ellison
Postscript (and by extension, PDF) doesn't reflow at all, which makes it a pain to use for different sized small screens like ebook readers.
"I may not have morals, but I have standards."
PDF isn't an ebook format. It's an e-paper format. It gets used for ebooks fairly often, but it's not very good at it.
'Sensible' is a curse word.