{"id":9216,"date":"2009-08-16T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-16T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T21:07:00","slug":"sony-changes-e-book-reader-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/9216-sony-changes-e-book-reader-format.html","title":{"rendered":"Sony changes e-book reader format"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese electronics giant said the move &#8220;allows Sony to make its e-book store compatible with multiple devices and its Reader devices open to multiple sources for content.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sony said it would convert its e-book store to the open ePub format by the end of the year as part of &#8220;an effort to take the confusion out of digital book formats.&#8221; <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Sony said it would drop proprietary copy-protection software on the Reader in favour of a cross-platform anti-copying software solution developed by Adobe.<\/p>\n<p>Sony&#8217;s move is seen as a direct challenge to Amazon, whose electronic books can only be read on the Kindle or on an Apple iPhone using <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/techreviews\/Hardware\/236.html\">Kindle<\/a> software.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Consumers should not have to worry about which device works with which store,&#8221; Steve Haber, president of <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/Images\/9087.html\">Sony&#8217;s Digital Reading<\/a> Business Division, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With a common format and common content protection solution they will be able to shop around for the content they want regardless of where they get it or what device they use,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The ePub format was developed by more than 60 companies and organisations and has received the support of the International Digital Publishing Forum.<\/p>\n<p>Sony noted that dozens of publishers are producing e-books using the ePub standard.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon does not reveal sales figures for the Kindle and chief executive Jeff Bezos said at the annual shareholders meeting in May that the company may never reveal the numbers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sony Reader discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony, in a challenge to Amazon&#039;s Kindle, unveiled plans on Thursday to do away with the proprietary software on its electronic Sony Reader and convert its e-book store to an industry standard format. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}