Apple Breaking iBooks on Some Jailbroken iPhones

slayda · 02-20-2011, 06:39 PM

Good article on Gizmodo entitled "Apple Breaking iBooks on Some Jailbroken iPhones" may be of interest to those reading on Jailbroken iPhones. Sounds like a good reason to remove DRM to me.

tomsem · 02-21-2011, 01:18 PM

The problem is that, as far as I know, nobody has succeeded in removing DRM from iBookstore ebooks (and why bother, when almost all of the same books are available elsewhere).

Which to me only argues for avoiding iBookstore purchases altogether: if you choose not to have an iDevice in the future, you no longer have any way of accessing your iBooks collection (or at least the ones with DRM). A jail-broken device, it might be said, is no longer an 'iDevice' in the usual sense, so one might expect some stuff like this to happen, whether it is due to Apple's design or not.

02-20-2011, 06:39 PM	#1
slayda Retired & reading more! Posts: 2,700 Karma: 871861 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: North Alabama, USA Device: EZ Reader, Kindle 1, NookColor, iPad 4, iPhone 5	Apple Breaking iBooks on Some Jailbroken iPhones Good article on Gizmodo entitled "Apple Breaking iBooks on Some Jailbroken iPhones" may be of interest to those reading on Jailbroken iPhones. Sounds like a good reason to remove DRM to me. __________________ "People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for" - Harper Lee

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tomsem Wizard Posts: 2,044 Karma: 1889878 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPod Touch, Nook STR, Xoom, Kindle Touch, PW & Fire, Sony PRS-T1, iPad	The problem is that, as far as I know, nobody has succeeded in removing DRM from iBookstore ebooks (and why bother, when almost all of the same books are available elsewhere). Which to me only argues for avoiding iBookstore purchases altogether: if you choose not to have an iDevice in the future, you no longer have any way of accessing your iBooks collection (or at least the ones with DRM). A jail-broken device, it might be said, is no longer an 'iDevice' in the usual sense, so one might expect some stuff like this to happen, whether it is due to Apple's design or not.


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