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Sony Reader tips from Adobe expert: How Mac users can read everything that PC folks can
August 8, 2008 | 10:56 am
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By David Rothman
How can you read e-books on the Sony Reader if you own a Mac? We covered that topic earlier. Here’s hoping that Sony will be more considerate toward Mac folks.
Meanwhile, however, Adobe’s Jim Lester helpfully shared some workarounds—they involve Adobe Digital Editions.
Yes, your Reader can display DRMed PDFs and ePubs via your Mac, as well as nonencrypted files.
That said, it would be wonderful if Mac eBook Library software for the Reader were on tap. Sony might remember that many media types are big Mac enthusiasts.
Reminder: We’re just as ant-DRM as ever but want to help people cope with the present.
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Sony lost a sale to me because of the lack of Mac support. They were bundling a bunch of free books at the time and as a Mac user I could not access them. I stalled for nearly a year. When the Kindle came out it had all my objections to the Sony reader solved, so I bought one. I am not sure Sony is very interested in selling that product.
Hate to break it to you, but Mac users are still at a minority. I’m not certain on the kind of work it takes to make a product ‘Mac-compatible,’ but unless the total cost is considerably less than the total revenue, they have no incentive to gear anything towards Mac users.
It wasn’t even until Apple made the iPod compatible with a PC that it really even took off sales-wise. PC users are simply the largest customer base at this point.