Everyone seems to want in on the manufacturing of e-book readers. Now, Amazon has been rumored to be making it's debut with it's own e-reader called the Kindle Machine. Most e-readers will end up using a software company such as Adobe for the reading of books, however it seems that Amazon wants to make the leap and not only have their own hardware, but use their own softwear on it. Amazon's Mobipocket is what is said to run on the Kindle Machine. So what do software companies do in this situation? Adobe seems to have the answer by continuing on and making more deals with "hardware people." Not only will Adobe keep trucking on, they have already started laying treds with Adobe LE, which is believed to be a program being used on the newly introduced iRiver E-book reader. This program allows the iRiver to read DRMed PDF files, which does not mean good news for the Sony Reader. Unfortunately, the Sony Reader can only read DRM files in BBeB format. Lucky for Sony, as of right now, the iRiver E-book seems to only be a prototype. It seems that everyone wants a piece of the pie.
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http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6069