Japan's Sharp plans to enter the increasingly competitive e-book reader market later this year with a device that can read a new e-publishing file format of its own, it said Tuesday.
The company will launch an e-book reader in Japan before the end of the year and is also working towards a launch outside of Japan. The device, which has not yet been detailed by the company, is likely to hit the U.S. after Japan and Sharp said it is already in launch talks with Verizon Wireless. ...Sharp's e-book readers will read files in a new version of XMDF (ever-eXtending Mobile Document Format), a format developed by Sharp and used in some of its previous devices.
The new version adds support for multimedia data and will allow audio and video to be embedded into e-book pages.
The original version of XMDF was accepted into the international standard for e-publishing (IEC62448), although its use remains largely confined to Japan. ...
Sharp said it has yet to decide if its reader will support other formats in addition to XMDF. ...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Sharp Will Launch XMDF E-book Reader Later This Year
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