B&N's New Nook Wireless Book Reader Takes On Amazon's Digital Books Reader
By proprietary formats, when you purchase a book for digital download from Kindle it will arrive in their own file format .AZW that only allows you to open it on amazon's wireless reading device. So if in the future, obviously after you have have checked out all the digital book readers for the latest model at the best price, you then decided you wanted to switch reading devices to an alternative make, your library of e-books happen to be worthless. Decide for yourself if it's reasonable or not.
That scenario has been a large barrier for the industry in general but also for the sellers of other reading devices in particular. They where never going to be able to offer the quantity of titles Amazon where competent of doing and so this aided sales of the Kindle2 . And so they present aid for extra file formats, above all the Adobe .PDF, which is a much loved format for free e-books, but this standard does not replicate a scaled down type of text that well as it was always supposed to be reproducing text at an A4 size, just the thing for the Kindledx and iLiad readers but not so for the little 5,6 and 7 inch displays.
For this reason came the Epub format, an open source format planned to show text. It is fast up-and-coming as the standard of the future and has received assistance from the likes of Google Library who shall be releasing their total one million titles, of which the majority are at no cost to down load, in this format. Barnes and Noble will also be going the same way the same as will the Sony-Store.
Accordingly you should see that any electronic book reading device that has backing for this standard will be future proof. B&N's Nook Revolutionary wireless reading device has .Epub support, as does the Sony Daily Edition, and so you can download your electronic books from everywhere you prefer, paid for or free, and not merely from the maker of the electronic book readers , that is the situation with the Kindle 2 digital ebook reader.
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