Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/21/e_books/
Sony sparks digi book fireworks with ePub move  Giving Mills and
Boon readers something to hide  By Bill Ray  Posted in
Applications, 21st August 2009 09:43 GMT  Analysis Sony has said
its ebooks will henceforth be supplied solely in ePub format,
creating a duopoly with Amazon's Kindle platform.  Sony's
endorsement of ePub gives the format a welcome breath of life,
but its decision to mandate Adobe's Content Server is more
interesting; the combination challenges Amazon's Kindle and
could lead to a duopoly of providers protecting content in an
industry more interested in middle-aged housewives than early-
adopting IT professionals.  There is a myriad of ebook formats -
26 listed in Wikipedia - with varying capabilities but generally
focused on creating works that can be somewhat reformatted to
suit the device being used to read them. This contrasts with PDF
documents, which mandate the whole layout (WYSIWOG - What You
See Is What Others Get - as Ad