Dilip R Vellodi interview at rediff includes an interesting point. “Currently, over 84% of our revenues come from F1000 space.” Does Sutherland Global Services not have a focus to serve small and medium sized companies?
Apparently Borders will soon open a private labeled Kobo store.
This is interesting because they use Adobe Digital Editions instead of trying to reinvent DRM all over again like everybody else. Finally ePublishing is becoming a service instead of a brand new cult at every outlet.
While iPad supports Adobe PDF files, this fixed page layout format is poorly supported by the smaller screens of the iPhone and iPod touch. Because Apple wants to support the same books on all of their platforms (in much the same way as Amazon has reader software for PCs and iPhones that all use the same account), the file format for the iBookstore will be EPUB.
While this is fine for the big players in the publishing industry, smaller players have to work through a third party to get onto the iBookstore and for the moment this means Smashwords and they require Microsoft Word documents with limited formatting.