There’ll soon be open battle in the eBook Revolution. This update from Jorgen. PCWorld, much like the rest of us, is predicting the outbreak of an eBook Reader war. Read the article here.
They’re warning us to be cautious when making an eBook reader purchase since the next year is going to see a wide variety of new machines and devices arrive on the market with accompanying variation in price. They’re also predicting the possibility of cross-platform eBook format problems, and that might prove true in some cases. Frankly, I think only an idiot would release an eBook reader with a proprietary format at this point in the game.
I’m just curious to see if everyone’s going to join in on the ePub formatting. Now that Google Books and Sony Reader is switching to that format, and with Amazon’s distress over its Kindle-only eBooks, it would surprise me if anything came onto the market that did not read ePub. But I’ve been surprised before, yah? And some of the rumored economy-class machines might sacrifice flexibility for price. Time will tell.
