<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Sony announces their newest Kindle competitor -- the Daily Edition e-reader -- to go along with their two previously-announced versions, the Reader Pocket Edition and Reader Touch Edition. But...still no DAISY compatibility.<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/170760/sonys_daily_edition_ereader_takes_on_kindle.html?tk=rel_news">http://www.pcworld.com/article/170760/sonys_daily_edition_ereader_takes_on_kindle.html?tk=rel_news</a></div><div><br></div><div>Earlier this month, Sony announced that by the end of the year they would only sell digital books in the ePub format, an open standard created by <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">publishers. Alluding to this during their latest product release, Steve Haber, president of Sony's Digital Reading Business Division, stated:</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"It's all about access to content ... We want it to be a ubiquitous experience, not locked in -- open, open, open."</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">If that's so, then it's kind of ironic that they wouldn't also support an open international standard like DAISY. Here's hoping that Apple sees fit to include DAISY compatibility when it enters the fray sometime between September and next January.</span></div><div><br></div><div>- Shelley</div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div>_____________________________</div><div>Shelley Haven ATP, RET</div><div>Assistive Technology Consultant</div><div><a href="mailto:Shelley@TechPotential.net">Shelley@TechPotential.net</a></div><div><a href="http://www.TechPotential.net">www.TechPotential.net</a></div><div><br></div></span></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>