They’re killing the dogs–so why not put BBeB to sleep, too, before it does too much damage?
Sony’s killing off its roboic dogs. Thing is, Sony will ditch products that don’t reflect its most recent priorities. Did you think that the beautiful Clie line of PDAs would be around forever in North America?
Especially in wake of Sony’s DRM fiasco, those people are the last I’d trust with a proprietary e-book format.
Hey, the DRM mess and other details aside, I have nothing against Sony–just plenty against the BBeB format used in the Sony Reader E Ink machine. BBeB is is brain-dead compared to OpenReader and carries plenty of uncertainties as a proprietary format. Already an exec with an important company doing business with Sony is recognizing an open approach, not BBeB, as the ultimate future.
At any rate I doubt that Sony will turn BBeB’s evolution over to standard-setters representing a variety of stakeholders. Time to kill the use of the BBeB format, then–not just the dogs? Given that Sony itself is such a complex beast, with so many different technologies that must mesh together, an open approach would help shareholders, too, not just e-book buyers.
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