It is December 2009! Santa is here with a bag stuffed full of Ebook Readers. He couldn't fit down the chimney so he has come thru the front door disguised as a delivery boy - his boxes are labelled with various eBay stores and he has one just for you!
No Santa? Santa's little helper can deliver too!
This new content revolution is based off the publishing of quality
content into a standardized medium - the digital ebook. There are many
eBook types. Here at Ebook Readers Org we hope to help you in the
process of collecting eBooks, finding a cheap deal on an ebook reader,
and fill your mind with worthy reading. If you have a growing
collectionof eBooks with the majority supported by your favourite
eReader but have a few formats you cannot open... look for the file
extension and their respective advantages/disadvantages. If you are
still stuck you can contact us directly or via the forums!
eBook Format List for 2010
- How Many eBook Formats are out there?
- Who
created them?- What eReader Device can read them?
| Format |
Filename Extension(s) | DRM Support |
Image Support | Word wrap Support |
Open standard | Embedded Annotation Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plain text | .txt | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| HTML | .html | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| EPUB (IDPF) | .epub | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Amazon Kindle | .azw | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
| Tome Raider | .tr2, .tr3 |
? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| Arghos Diffusion |
.arg | Yes | Yes | ? | No | ? |
| Portable Document Format |
Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| PostScript | .ps | No | Yes | No | Yes | |
| Mobipocket | .prc, .mobi | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| eReader | .pdb | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
| Reader | plain text | html | Kindle | ePub | Open Electronic Package | Tome Raider | Post Script | Djvu | eReader | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Kindle | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Kindle 2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Kindle DX | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Sony Reader (all models) | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Hanlin E-Reader V3 |
Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Barnes & Noble Nook | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Format: | Kindle |
| Published as: |
.azw |
With the launch of
the Kindle eBook reader, Amazon.com created the AZW format. It is
based on the Mobipocket standard, with a slightly different serial
number scheme (it uses an asterisk instead of a Dollar sign) and its
own DRM formatting. Because the eBooks bought on the Kindle are
delivered wirelessly over EvDO (the system is called Whispernet by
Amazon), the user does not see the AZW files during the download
process.
| Format: | Arghos Diffusion |
| Published as: |
.arg |
The ARG format is
an XML-based proprietary format developed by the French firm Arghos
Diffusion. ARG files use a proprietary DRM and encryption method and
are readable only in the Arghos Player. It supports various
input formats for text, audio or video, such as PDF, WMA, MP3, WMV,
and allows multiple interactive functions such as bookmarking,
advanced plain-text searching, dynamic text highlighting, etc.
Investors fund companies that tell manufacturers their designs who then make eBook Readers for multiple countries... Somewhere the eBook Readers got renamed, rebadged and reinvented. Let's try to make sense of this mess. Please comment at the bottom if you know more about this quagmire (difficult situation)... so read and then write to me in the comments if you got knowledge to add. Thanx -eBookie
If you have reviews and comparisons of two ereaders feel free to register, login, and submit them in the Ebook Readers Org Forums
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