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Originally Posted by slantybard
I had heard that there might be an issue with B&N not allowing Sony and others to use their ADE ePub DRM version. B&N is partly to blame for being stupid in 2 areas:
1. They chose a DRM flavour that is different than everyone else's which fragments ePub further and confuses customers who just want to buy and read.
2. They will only sell to US billing addresses.
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B&N has an agreement with Adobe and aren't able to allow or disallow a manufacturer to not use both method of enryption, B&N DRM is essentially just another flavor of Adobe DRM now. B&N's DRM is Adobe DRM with a different "key" method ("regular" Adobe uses an ID based method while "B&N/eReader" style uses a 'password'). Both use Adobe content server and if manufacturers implement it any reader using the new Reader Mobile SDK can decide to allow both types of DRM. Also since "B&N Style" DRM is part of content server that method could be offered elsewhere as well and can be any kind of password, not just a CC number.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/digitalp...noble_faq.html
Of course it would have been easier from a consumer standpoint for B&N to just use Adept/ID based DRM like everyone else was, but I'm sure doing it this way gave them some kind of deal where they aren't paying Adobe a fee for every DRM book download like other vendors who use Content Server do.