Sony Plans to Adopt Common Format for E-Books (Published 2009)

Paper books may be low tech, but no one will tell you how and where you can read them. For many people, the problem with electronic books is that they come loaded with just those kinds of restrictions. Digital books bought today from Amazon.com, for example, can be read only on Amazon’s Kindle device or its iPhone software. Some restrictions on the use of e-books are likely to remain a fact of lif

[takunama]

ePub 形式はヴェンダー中立 (に近い) だけど DRM フリーというわけではないみたい。"they want to push the e-book industry toward common standards to avoid a replay of Apple’s domination of the digital music business."

[Mamiccho]

ソニーが電子図書の企画にそって電子図書を販売する記事なのかな?と思いブックマーク。英語なので、あとで翻訳せねばですね。