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readwriteweb.com - 4/9/2009
Adobe Teams Up With Stanza to Create Open EBook Catalog Standard
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Adobe and Lexcycle, the company behind the popular Stanza eBook application, announced today that they are working together with the Internet Archive on turning the Stanza online catalog system into an open standard for distributing free and commercial eBooks. This new standard, the Open ...
thestreet.com - 4/8/2009
Tech Rumor of the Day: Barnes & Noble | Telecom | Financial Articles & Investing News
— thestreet.com — Updated from 8:29 a.m. EDT Rumor has it you can soon add one more so-called eBook to... the Amazon ( AMZN Quote - Cramer on AMZN - Stock Picks ) Kindle and Sony ( SNE Quote - Cramer on SNE - Stock Picks ) Digital Book party. > Barnes & Noble ( BKS Quote ... (more) Tech Rumor of the Day: Barnes & Noble | Telecom | ...

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amazon.com - 4/13/2009
Customer Discussions: Amazon: Please make the text darker on Kindle 2!
— amazon.com — Kindle 2 is capable of producing darker text than the default setting, which is light, thin, and... difficult to read for many people. Customer Service has reportedly told at least one person that the standard text could have been a darker shade of ... (more) Customer Discussions: Amazon: Please make the text ...

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Kindle 2's Fuzzy Fonts Have Users Seeing Red
blog.wired.com - 4/13/2009
Kindle 2's Fuzzy Fonts Have Users Seeing Red
— blog.wired.com — Amazon's Kindle 2 is slimmer, faster and has longer battery life than its predecessor. But the newly... launched e-book reader falls short when it comes to how well it displays text, say some users. "When you read a lot of text on the ... (more) Kindle 2's Fuzzy Fonts Have Users Seeing Red

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You down with OPDS? Yeah, you know us!
CrunchGear — ... software) adopt this draft standard. Do you think Amazon would support this in addition to their Kindle Store? As a consumer I support open standards 100%, and would prefer to give my dollars to organizations that support them. But I recognize that content and hardware producers prefer the “walled garden” approach in order to keep their users — and their users’ dollars — locked into their proprietary systems. Exciting times are surely ahead! Via RedWriteWeb

OPDS: Open Publication Distribution System (RSS for eBooks, basically)
Boing Boing Gadgets — An open distribution standard for eBooks? Count me in: Adobe and Lexcycle, the company behind the popular Stanza eBook application, announced today that they are working together with the Internet Archive on turning the Stanza online catalog system into an open standard for distributing free and commercial eBooks. This new standard, the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS), will be built on top of Atom, and aims to create an open standard for distributed online catalogs for electronic books.

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