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Originally Posted by questionfear
Ok, so to make sure I understand you correctly:
Sony is using a general DRM that is not proprietary. Barnes and Noble is using a propietary DRM scheme for their ePub. So as long as Barnes and Noble supports generic ePub, they can read Sony books, but Barnes and Noble's special ePub locks their books to their software.
Am I following?
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Sony will be using Adobe's Adept DRM, which is what all ePub's currently use if they use DRM. A form of B&N's eReader DRM is going to be incorporated into Adobe's DRM so that in theory publishers can use either version of the DRM. As of right now all the Readers out there use Adobe's DRM and in order for them to work with B&N's DRM too the Reader's firmware would need an update. B&N's firmware on the Nook will be the updated software so it will read both versions of the DRM.
Here's the explanation that Jim Lester, from Adobe, posted earlier...
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Originally Posted by Jim Lester
The Adobe/B&N joint press release is here:
http://newsblaze.com/story/200910201.../topstory.html
The summary is this:
B&N will be using their current flavor of DRM (content locked to a user name/CC#) for selling ePubs from their store.
B&N has licensed this scheme to Adobe for inclusion in the RMSDK (Reader Mobile SDK – it’s the ePub/PDF engine we license to device manufacturers) and ACS (Adobe Content Server).
Adobe in turn has licensed the RMSDK (that includes this method as well as our current method) to B&N, who is using it to implement ePub/PDF rendering on the Nook.
Other RMSDK customers will get this as part of the 9.1 release of the RMSDK (early 2010). When those customers choose to include it on devices/firmware upgrades will be up to them.
ADE 1.7.1 (the current version) does not support the new DRM format, but we do plan on releasing a version that does (and no there is no publicly released date for that version of ADE available yet).
This will cause confusion in the short term about what will work where as we get everyone (including us) ramped up, but the long/medium term goal is that from a customer perspective – it’ll just work. |