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Sony Reader Store goes 100% EPUB on Friday
In: gadgets
8 Dec 2009
Listen up Sony Reader owners: you’ve got three days to change your ways. On December 11th, the eBook Store from Sony will be renamed the Reader Store with a new URL to prove it. In addition to a new store layout, the change also extends the open EPUB format to Sony’s entire inventory of eBooks. In fact, any new electronic books will only be available in EPUB which helps explain the motivation for Sony’s PRS-500 trade-in program. As such, we can say goodbye to Sony’s proprietary BBeB (“BroadBand eBook”) format which goes the way of ATRAC (outside of Japan, anyway). Sony’s also making its Reader Library 3.1 software for Mac and PC available on the same day with support for the imminent Reader Daily Edition launch and compatibility with Windows 7 and OS X Snow Leopard — how timely.
Sony Reader Store goes 100% EPUB on Friday originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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2 Responses to Sony Reader Store goes 100% EPUB on Friday
Lemony.xoxo
January 31st, 2010 at 1:04 pm
It's basically the same thing, except you can get refill pans and palettes. Unless you're talking about the MAC Pro stores. That store is only located in four states. I know it's in NYC and LA. That is where they have special eye shadows, lipsticks, etc that you can't get at a MAC store at Macy's, Nordstroms, or even their regular store. You can order from the MAC Pro store by phone, if there isn't one near you. Also, they offer a special program where you can get discounts.
Only if you're a makeup artist, freelancer, photographer, model, actress, etc. They have a complete list on their site. Depending on what you do, you can get up to 60% off. They have limits and rules, though. But for advice, don't try and fake your way in. It takes awhile for them to get back to you. Why? Because they are taking their time, reviewing your credentials (you have to provide actual proof, business cards, degree, etc) and if they find out you faked it, they will keep you on a list and it will become even HARDER to get in next time.
Sorry for this being so long.
emi k
February 9th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
When preceded by an ampersand (&) and followed by a semicolon, "nbsp" is HTML code used to create an empty space that is one character wide. It's the same as pressing space bar, except most browsers won't display more than one space in a row so web designers sometimes use "nbsp" to create multiple spaces. When a browser sees this code, it normally replaces it with a space before displaying the page.
If you're actually able to see the nbsp on the page, it means your browser isn't recognizing it as code. Chances are the author left out a semicolon or the document isn't formatted properly. Your best bet is to ignore it and read it as if it were a space.
You could also try copy/pasting the text into WordPad and replacing all occurences of nbsp with a space to make it more readable. (Edit > Replace or Ctrl+H)