Comments on: Report on Nook news conference: B&N switching to ePub—plus other news conf tidbits

By: Steve Jordan

Steve Jordan — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:57:16 +0000

I give them kudos just for supporting multiple and legacy devices (it is a rather odd statement about “upcoming” support for Windows Mobile, when WM runs eReader already… unless they are planning on adopting the new eReader to read ePub files or something). I just bought “Busted Flush” from their store a week ago, which is 100% more e-books than I’ve bought from Amazon…

By: Greg M.

Greg M. — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:01:53 +0000

I’m not going to rush out and buy one just yet on the the Press Release. I’m doing fine with my Kindle. The added features don’t seem like much. The color touch screen seems more gussied up than functional. The lending feature might make some people happy, but since I’m not much of a loaner or loanee, I probably wouldn’t have much use for it. So what if I can sync to my MacBook Pro–I don’t use the laptop to read books.

Direct pdf reading alone has me sold on the device’s superiority over the Kindle.

Without seeing the Nookie in action, I’m only guessing, of course, but I’m skeptical about true error-free readability of a fixed page format PDF on a 6″ eink screen. A reader would have to tolerate occasional to frequent formatting errors in the text, but some people might have low standards of acceptability.

The Nookie might be worth a closer look just in case I’ll need a second ereader, though I’m kind of holding out to see if there is ever an Apple tablet and what that will be able to do.

By: David

David — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:29:10 +0000

Direct pdf reading alone has me sold on the device’s superiority over the Kindle. I prefer the ePub format, DRM or not. The lending feature is a nice way of saying “Publishers won’t let us remove DRM but you can share a bit.”

By: Felix Torres

Felix Torres — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:21:06 +0000

Adobe DRM and 5 font size support suggests ADE is the reader app for EPUB and PDF. If so, it should be compatible with other devices fed via desktop ADE.

By: Felix Torres

Felix Torres — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:21:05 +0000

Adobe DRM and 5 font size support suggests ADE is the reader app for EPUB and PDF. If so, it should be compatible with other devices fed via desktop ADE.

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:12:30 +0000

Just picked up from an email. Thanks, Jim. I’d rather you err on the side of alerting us. While I’m not thrilled with DRM, it is good news that apparently B&N customers can use the same files on different brands of readers. Or am I wrong about that? Perhaps you can clarify.

Thanks,
David

By: Jim Lester

Jim Lester — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:05:48 +0000

Additional Press Release:
http://newsblaze.com/story/2009102014314000002.bw/topstory.html

By: Q&A

Q&A — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:30:36 +0000

Just wondering what flavour of ePub this is going to be. DRM’d ePub or the open ePub the rest of us like.