last100 » BeBook http://www.last100.com Tracking the digital lifestyle Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:24:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 The Gadget Show Live: BeBook eBook reader [video] http://www.last100.com/2009/04/21/the-gadget-show-live-bebook/ http://www.last100.com/2009/04/21/the-gadget-show-live-bebook/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:51:31 +0000 Steve O'Hear http://www.last100.com/?p=4198 bebookWith Amazon’s Kindle winning the most mind share (thanks to Oprah) and Sony publishing healthy numbers for sales of its Sony Reader, it’s easy to forget that the eBook market isn’t purely a two horse race. Enter the BeBook from Dutch company Endless Ideas who were touting the device at last week’s The Gadget Show Live.

What sets the BeBook apart from competing eBook readers, the company claims, is support for a wider range of file formats, which on the surface appears to be true. However, after a bit of digging I’ve discovered at least one caveat. While the BeBook supports non-DRM formats galore, such as txt, pdf, doc, html, rtf, ppt, bmp, jpg, png, gif, tif, and even mp3s, which pretty much has you covered for out of copyright books and other non-commercial content, the only eBook format with DRM that’s supported is Mobipocket. That’s probably fine for most potential buyers but does mean, for example, that copyprotected PDFs can’t be viewed on the device.

Video of the BeBook at The Gadget Show Live after the jump…

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