{"id":2881,"date":"2009-08-19T08:34:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T13:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2881"},"modified":"2009-08-19T08:34:12","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T13:34:12","slug":"imagine-a-world-with-only-one-ebook-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2881","title":{"rendered":"Imagine a world with only one eBook format&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really think it&#8217;s going to happen. After Sony ditched its proprietary format in favor of\u00c2\u00a0the cross platform EPUB, it seems possible that eBook and eBook Reader\u00c2\u00a0Retailers might stop trying to control their products and start selling them untethered. Just sell the eBook Reader and allow consumers to decide what and where they&#8217;ll get their reading material. The format disunity is just slowing down the eBook Revolution, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>One look at this excellent <a title=\"Examiner.com - eBook Formats\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-12973-Long-Island-Books-Examiner~y2009m8d18-eBook-formats--changing-times\" target=\"_self\">article<\/a> by Lauren Walter at the <strong>Examiner.com<\/strong>, and you&#8217;ll see that the market is slowly moving toward universality with their formats. A year ago, there must have been twenty different eBook file formats in play, and other than .TXT, few of them\u00c2\u00a0worked on the different devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really think it&#8217;s going to happen. After Sony ditched its proprietary format in favor of\u00c2\u00a0the cross platform EPUB, it seems possible that eBook and eBook Reader\u00c2\u00a0Retailers might stop trying to control their products and start selling them untethered. Just sell the eBook Reader and allow consumers to decide what and where they&#8217;ll get their &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2881\">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":[3,5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881"}],"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=2881"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2889,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions\/2889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}