Comments on: Digital Editions demo sends ePub to Sony Reader—but read the details; regular DE 1.5 released

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:43:56 +0000

Jim, please do let me know as soon as Adobe will let you. Can hardly wait. Perhaps the iPod fuss will encourage Sony to speed things up. Thanks. David

By: Jim Lester

Jim Lester — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:23:29 +0000

Jerry,

Although I am a frequent poster on the Digital Editions User to User forum, I don’t think it can really be considered “my” blog

The decision on the timing and content of the announcement regarding the future of Sony products, is completely Sony’s to make, and while I’ll echo the announcements in the DE forum (and make sure that David knows about it), it’s not something that I’m going to scoop Sony on.

p.s. I am not worried about Sony’s commitment to the eBook market, but obviously can’t provide the supporting facts to ease your mind.

By: Jerry Johnson

Jerry Johnson — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:00:34 +0000

I have been following Jim Lester’s blog on this topic, I for one think that an announcement from Sony regarding epub and Adobe DE support would greatly increase consumer confidence in both Sony’s Commitment to the ebook market and the longevity of their current Model. I think alot of potential buyers have been burned in the past when Sony abruptly abandons a technology. Really we are not asking for WIFI, bluetooth, or email for the PRS 505 (maybe in the 510) but a firmware update at the least will ease our minds.

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:45:34 +0000

Hi, Nate. We appreciated your efforts and share your frustration over the lack of a release date. At least we know from Jim’s note that, yes, the PRS 505 was actually reading ePub and not something in translation. Paul Biba was all set to go to the IDPF conference but had to cancel at the last minute. Keep up the good work. David

By: Nate the great

Nate the great — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:02:55 +0000

On another note, did anyone from TeleRead go the the IDPF conference? TeleRead Blog was listed among the organizations attending, but I didn’t see any names I recognized.

By: Nate the great

Nate the great — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:59:54 +0000

For those of y’all who were there, yes, I was the person in the back of the room typing furiously on my Kindle.

The main reason I live-blogged that demo was that I was hoping we would get a release date, and _that_ would have been worth telling everyone right away. For the all the other talks I used my Jornada 720 to take notes.

In all honesty, the demo yesterday doesn’t matter. It was a vapor ware demo just like at CES.

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Thu, 15 May 2008 19:05:49 +0000

[...] of devices, at the Digital Book 2008 conference in NY yesterday, apparently (I was not there sadly) Sony demoed the Sony Reader Digital Book (505) working with Digital [...]

By: Jeff Scott

Jeff Scott — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:05:02 +0000

That’s really big if this pans out the way it is being reported.

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:30:54 +0000

Jim, thanks for telling us what you could! Let’s hope that Adobe pays attention to my gripe. I know you’d do things differently if you had control over this! David

By: Jim Lester

Jim Lester — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:27:15 +0000

I’m still impatiently waiting for the point where I can openly discuss the 505.

I think I can get away with clarifying that the 505 in the demo was indeed viewing the ePub file – no smoke and mirrors going on.