http://www.teleread.com/drm/oreilly-teams-up-with-microsoft-press-digital-drm-free-content/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:05:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.teleread.com/drm/oreilly-teams-up-with-microsoft-press-digital-drm-free-content/comment-page-1/#comment-1145618 Ahmed Hindawi Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:46:08 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=29317#comment-1145618 It would indeed be nice to see anther reader to compete with Adobe Digital Editions in the ePUB area. Hopefully someone will decide to support bidirectional languages (such as Arabic) in their ePUB reader if there is more competition. It would indeed be nice to see anther reader to compete with Adobe Digital Editions in the ePUB area. Hopefully someone will decide to support bidirectional languages (such as Arabic) in their ePUB reader if there is more competition.

]]> http://www.teleread.com/drm/oreilly-teams-up-with-microsoft-press-digital-drm-free-content/comment-page-1/#comment-1145558 Steve Jordan Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:27:32 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=29317#comment-1145558 It would only benefit MS to add ePub readability to MS Reader, especially if the reader was already being bundled with Windows software (and if it hasn't been before, it should be now, during e-books' ascendence). Of course, Adobe might have something to say about it, but I'd like to see it anyway. If nothing else, having two popular readers available for the desktop environments should help to keep both readers standards-compliant. It would only benefit MS to add ePub readability to MS Reader, especially if the reader was already being bundled with Windows software (and if it hasn’t been before, it should be now, during e-books’ ascendence). Of course, Adobe might have something to say about it, but I’d like to see it anyway. If nothing else, having two popular readers available for the desktop environments should help to keep both readers standards-compliant.

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