{"id":41280,"date":"2023-11-30T22:56:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T03:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=41280"},"modified":"2023-11-30T22:56:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T03:56:58","slug":"vivlio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/30\/vivlio\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivlio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/11\/30\/this-small-french-company-wants-to-build-the-open-alternative-to-kindle-and-kobo\/\">Romain Dillet<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/link\/2023\/11\/personal-this-small-french-company-wants-to-build-the-open-alternative-to-kindle-and-kobo-techcrunch\/\">Jason Snell<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/11\/30\/this-small-french-company-wants-to-build-the-open-alternative-to-kindle-and-kobo\/\"><p>While Amazon&rsquo;s Kindle is the clear leader and Rakuten&rsquo;s Kobo the obvious challenger, Vivlio has been building an open European alternative to these two tech giants. And it proves that you can compete with tech giants with a team of 35 as long as you have a distinct strategy with different goals.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>From the very beginning, Vivlio bet that the book industry would remain fragmented &mdash; building yet-another-Amazon wouldn&rsquo;t be a winning move. Vivlio signed a handful of partnerships with small and big chain bookstores so that it could run their e-book stores for them.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Vivlio contributed to Readium LCP, an open-source DRM solution that doesn&rsquo;t require an Adobe account (or any third-party account). Many companies and public institutions have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edrlab.org\/readium-lcp\/certified-apps-servers\/\">embraced LCP<\/a> in recent years. Adobe&rsquo;s DRM is still the leading protection system, but this technical move contributes to the open ecosystem philosophy behind Vivlio.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Vivlio partners with PocketBook for its e-book readers. But these devices aren&rsquo;t just rebranded PocketBook devices, as the company adds a software layer so that they work with the entire Vivlio ecosystem. For instance, you can log in to your bookstore account directly on your Vivlio e-reader. All your purchases are automatically synchronized with your device and Vivlio&rsquo;s cloud storage.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romain Dillet (via Jason Snell): While Amazon&rsquo;s Kindle is the clear leader and Rakuten&rsquo;s Kobo the obvious challenger, Vivlio has been building an open European alternative to these two tech giants. And it proves that you can compete with tech giants with a team of 35 as long as you have a distinct strategy with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-12-01T03:57:01Z","apple_news_api_id":"9420defa-94d9-4aa1-b250-0fb2c802e4ab","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-12-01T03:57:01Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AlCDe-pTZSqGyUA-yyALkqw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,182,166,2169,74,2508],"class_list":["post-41280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-drm","tag-ebooks","tag-france","tag-opensource","tag-vivlio"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41281,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41280\/revisions\/41281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}