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Adobe Extends E-Book Platform to Several Mobile Devices
This is most likely the last in what seems like a spate of e-book stories, and it’s the most interesting news to come out of an otherwise sedate Mobile World Congress (formerly 3GSM conference) this week in Barcelona. It builds on Adobe’s announcement last week that Lexcycle will build Adobe’s Digital Editions e-book platform and DRM into the popular Stanza e-book reader application for Apple iPhones and iPod Touches.
Adobe announced on Monday that it has also made deals with Bookeen, iRex Technologies, Plastic Logic, Polymer Vision Ltd., and Spring Design to implement the new Adobe Reader Mobile SDK to those companies’ e-book devices. iRex’s iLiad has been on the market for a few years, whereas the other companies are working on thinner, lighter, and/or more portable devices that have yet to launch.
The e-book device market is thus growing in a different way than looked to be the case a mere couple of months ago. At that time, it appeared as if Amazon’s Kindle were headed on an Apple-like trajectory to be the vertically integrated hype-laden market leader while Adobe scurried around amongst the lucky leftovers, as Microsoft had done with its PlaysForSure strategy in the mobile music market.
But now we know that isn’t the case. Adobe’s deal with Lexcycle gives it a path to the iPhone with service providers already in place that have rights to distribute lots of major-publisher frontlist content. And the new devices scheduled to come out on the market later this year have the potential to outpace Amazon’s Kindle 2.0, which was afforded a lukewarm reception at last week’s Tools of Change conference in New York.
Yet Amazon isn’t betting entirely on the Kindle either; it’s also trying to extend its Kindle content licenses to a wide range of existing smartphones and PDAs (including Treos and Blackberrys) through its Mobipocket platform.
The market for e-book platforms is now definitely a two-horse race. Amazon has the advantage of simplicity and integration, but at the same time, publishers fear that it if it gets too powerful it will control e-book economics the way Apple has appeared to control digital music economics.
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