Thursday, February 24, 2011

ebook formats

I just heard of the new free ebook format Blio. I wonder if it can do something about the confusion in the ebook format arena. It's just too silly: Sony has it's own format with copy-protection. Kindle, the largest player by far, has its own different format with copy-protection. And amongst the others, many use "ePub", and call it the "standard" format, even though it's hardly in use at all, percentage-wise. What is used most for real is PDF, but the problem is that it was designed for print, it was not designed for the text to scale to different screens and eyes! What a mess.

(Update: it seems Blio is not spreading very fast: it's claimed to become available for all popular platforms, but so far it's just Windows. So I'm not holding my breath for that revolution.)

1 comment:

TC [Girl] said...

Eolake said...
"It's just too silly: Sony has it's own format with copy-protection. Kindle, the largest player by far, has its own different format with copy-protection. And amongst the others, many use "ePub", and call it the "standard" format, even though it's hardly in use at all, percentage-wise. What is used most for real is PDF, but the problem is that it was designed for print, it was not designed for the text to scale to different screens and eyes! What a mess."

I agree! Sounds CRAZY Annoying! Blio, as well! HOPE that changes, soon!