Word on the street is that Barnes & Noble might be working on an ebook reading device, with yet another proprietary format. Says Technologizer:
One of the multiple wonderful things about human eyeballs is that they’re compatible with everything you can look at: I’ve got books I’ve owned since I was two that I still pull out from time to time. But e-books that are tied to a particular platform are dead ends: You’ll be lucky if you can still read them five years from now, let alone a few decades into the future. [more...]
