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Originally Posted by charmian
Why would it benefit B&N to create proprietary DRM? They already aren't paying Adobe licensing fees, IIRC.
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They didn't create it; they *bought* it when they bought Fictionwise. (Then they got Adobe to add it to their SDK. It is available to hardware developers but nobody has chosen to support it besides B&N.)
And they are definitely using Adobe's SDK and ADEPT authorization servers (at a minimum) so it is most likely they are paying the Adobe Tax along with Sony and Kobo. And all the generics.
Adobe's not in the ebook DRM business as a public service.