EBook With The Handbrake

There is much confusion, under the sky of the eBook. Amazon will churn out a few days on the international market the elder brother of Kindle. Kindle Dx is larger and equipped and will cost $ 489. Read books with this reader should be a pleasant experience and performance, thanks to the application for the native PDF format. So in 2010 the eBook will put long pants? Pass from childhood to adolescence? We will have to wait for Plastic Logic, for maturity?

Anyway, Amazon believes it. Besides a few days ago he announced emphatically overtaking sales of digital books than paper. Prudence and conditional, however, does not break down. To cool the enthusiasm there is the problem of compatibility, which - for the Italians - it is added that of language. Few, very few titles available.

Each producer of eReader pull the handbrake of a proprietary format, or Digital Rights Management (DRM). The books purchased from Amazon can only be read with the Kindle, which - in turn - does not read eBooks purchased elsewhere. Sure, you can always crack the device, but at your own risk.

Editions Google promises wonders. The Mountain View giant has formed an alliance with Sony to make available to users of its reader books scanned by Google Book Search. "We gave Sony a million books in the public domain for their eReader - said recently, Santiago de la Mora, head of Google Books for Europe - We have done the same with Barnes and Nobles and, more recently, Coolerbooks.com. We want to make available the largest number of books to as many people in as many languages as possible. "

The editors, you know, from this ear want to hear. From the users - if you exclude projects Google Editions - nobody does not take sides. Who cares if a Bibliomania is interested in a title that is sold in digital format only on Amazon. But he, the user has purchased another player ... or vice versa. The war of standards and proprietary formats has not led to good music and movies, but it seems that you do not want to draw lessons from the recent past. With one exception. The International Digital Publishing Forum is pushing for the open standard. EPUB.

E 'a format used to play digital texts and whole books. EPUB Each is composed of 3 files: the first contains the formatting information of the content (XHTML), the second describes the structure (through an XML) and the third is simply a ZIP archive that contains the first two. There are those who work there already, even in Italy.

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