{"id":2837,"date":"2009-08-14T06:55:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T11:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2009-08-14T06:57:47","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T11:57:47","slug":"sony-goes-epub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2837","title":{"rendered":"Sony Goes EPUB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the intensifying battle for eBook supremacy, <strong>Sony <\/strong>has announced that it will use the XML-based <strong>EPUB <\/strong>format in the <strong>Sony eBook Store<\/strong>, opening the door to consumers buying from the list without having to own a Sony Reader.<\/p>\n<p>Seems like a logical move, but it&#8217;s a departure from Sony&#8217;s proprietary format beginnings. It&#8217;s a move that is also bound to pull the rug out from under Amazon&#8217;s wireless but tethered Kindle, and Kindle-only list of titles.<\/p>\n<p>When linked to the release of <strong>2<\/strong> new <strong>competitively priced<\/strong> <a title=\"2 New Readers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2755\" target=\"_self\">Readers<\/a> and the rumored <a title=\"What's Sony up to?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2827\" target=\"_self\">announcement<\/a> of a wireless Sony Reader to go up against the Kindle, Sony is looking seriously interested in taking the lead in the eBook marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about time one of the leaders woke up and smelled the coffee, yah? Read the full story <a title=\"Sony Gets Real\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/c\/a\/Mobile-and-Wireless\/Sony-Adopts-EPUB-As-it-Fights-Amazon-for-EBook-Readers-827072\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the intensifying battle for eBook supremacy, Sony has announced that it will use the XML-based EPUB format in the Sony eBook Store, opening the door to consumers buying from the list without having to own a Sony Reader. Seems like a logical move, but it&#8217;s a departure from Sony&#8217;s proprietary format beginnings. It&#8217;s a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2837\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2844,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions\/2844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}