Sentences with phrase «proprietary formats»

Apple and Facebook dealt with that problem by creating proprietary formats and then convinced publishers to distribute their news in those formats on their platforms.

Today many electronic documents are embodied not in wholly proprietary formats, but in formats built on the foundation of standards.

On a serious note, R is powerful, easy to understand, has a professional look to the output of the graphics package, has a wide following, has custom packages for all kinds of field - specific uses, doesn't require the use of proprietary formats, can read most formats (and can be configured to read the rest if you want) and it's free.

Part of this means not paying for the licensing to play proprietary formats that their customers likely already have 1 or 2 devices to play.

Another key bugbear: Vita is awash with proprietary formats.

I placed the disc into my computer's DVD drive to discover that the DVD - R did not contain video, but instead a file directory, including every asset used to make up the game in a wide variety of proprietary formats.

I also don't like proprietary formats.

That's led to the rise of competing devices (like Sony's Reader, Amazon's Kindle and Plastic Logic's forthcoming device, due out early next year) along with competing proprietary formats for the content to be displayed on those devices.

And the e-titles we purchase are often in multiple proprietary formats.

So what happens if a vendor or publisher chooses to pull a library «purchased» e-title from their lending inventory, or fifty years from now OverDrive is no longer around, or the proprietary formats have changed or disappeared?

«Proprietary formats are going to hurt the Kindle — just like they hurt Apple's iPod, right?»

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Because once you buy the device, you are in it for the long run, since they each use proprietary formats to keep you loyal.

I don't see any discussion of what can reasonably be stored in 4 GB — one brief mention that is clearly based on just using the proprietary formats is inadequate.

To date, one of the least appealing things about e-readers has been the use of proprietary formats and digital - rights management (DRM) technologies that limit your use of digital books you've paid for.

The way I see it, publishers are bringing next to nothing to the party and big booksellers, such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble are simply trying to hog the profits for themselves by trapping the work of authors in their proprietary formats.

Publishers are coming out and saying they don't want proprietary formats for their e-books.

Other (Amazon Kindle for example) convert EPUB files into their own proprietary formats and don't allow consumers to directly «sideload» EPUB files.

Moving away from proprietary formats can only benefit the world of e-books.

Their proprietary formats are now a hinderance to their success rather than a help.

That working with a not - very open, proprietary formats like Mobi and especially KF8 is very difficult for InDesign developers.

Amazon, with its proprietary formats, is left out in the cold.

I like that Tokyopop is stretching out and looking at more ways to get their titles out digitally, I just wish they would stop with going with so much of the proprietary formats.

The EPUB3 standard might have a chance of becoming a standard, but only if proprietary formats such as Nook, Kindle and Apple give it a chance.

As e-readers grow in popularity, a debate is growing about how well proprietary formats such as Amazon.com uses with the Kindle will do against more open approaches that allow users to download e-books to just about any device.

We've never been fans of Sony's tendency towards proprietary formats and connections, but leaving out this file type is a blunder when previous Sony Reader owners are obvious prospective T1 owners.

Proprietary formats are hard to archive, leaving the author's work hard to access if the format becomes deprecated.

Not the guys who let your PSN account get hacked, or the ones who loved their proprietary formats more than their customers.

I love the idea of enhanced eBooks but got tired of weak and inconsistent support for ePub3 and proprietary formats.

And somehow I don't see the other major players, like Kobo and B&N, allowing Amazon apps on their eReaders... And I know that they also try to lock you into their ecosystems, but rather then doing so with proprietary formats, they use DRM's.

The Kindle Touch uses Amazons own proprietary formats such as AZW, PRC, MOBI, KF8, and so on.

I've consciously chosen to buy most eBooks from Kobo because of Amazon's proprietary formats, exactly to avoid having to convert eBooks.

Some would argue that the money to be made from proprietary formats enables or drives innovation and / or consumer adoption, as Amazon did with the Kindle, setting high standards for an e-ink device and for the ease of purchasing content.

Going the second route does not preclude you from repurposing your materials in other formats, including standards compliant ePub, or any of the other proprietary formats.

And forget DRM, proprietary formats, etc - those are all easily beaten by anyone competent enough to use the net.

Companies are starting to realize that using your own proprietary formats for books and operating system are constantly changing.

What's the best way to think about this and find a way to combat proprietary formats?

Those who are trying to shift the market away from proprietary formats can't try and market their way out of the problem.

Consumers dislike DRM, but are all right with proprietary formats.

I've now accepted the fact that proprietary formats are always going to be with us.

Yesterday I had that experience when I read an article contending that proprietary eBook formats are good rather than bad, and that while «someday» we may have a truly interoperable eBook format, for now we should just sit back and appreciate proprietary formats in this area.

Depending on where you get your ebooks from, they'll come in several different and often proprietary formats.

The only fly in the ointment is the dogged insistence at Amazon and Apple of sticking with their own proprietary formats, particularly for the formats that can handle complex documents (Amazon's KF9 and the one Apple's iBooks Author creates).

With so many proprietary formats out there (and the fact that you don't actually «own» an ebook, so you can not say to a friend «Here, this was great!

Load in your own e-books — Amazon Kindle e-readers are able to read a multitude of proprietary formats, including AZW and MOBI, but also PDF files.

We live in a world of Kindle Books, Nook Books and proprietary formats, but PDF's have been the longest lived format in the digital space.

On the plus side, the Reader Pocket Edition uses the ePub format, which is more versatile than the proprietary formats used by devices like the Kindle, as I explained in my October review of the Pocket Edition:

Neither MOBI nor EPUB are proprietary formats and you seem to misunderstand the meaning of the term «walled garden.»

Retailers (such as Amazon or Sony or their partners) should be discouraged from displaying ISBNs for these proprietary formats unless these are separate and unique ISBNs for the two individual format renderings.

epub, PDF etc) which are subsequently rendered into those proprietary formats..