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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
Even if Amazon went to epub, I think that they would use their own DRM, as I doubt that that they will want to pay adobe a royalty for each DRM'd book they sell. In fact, I'm sure they don't want to.
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My guess is that that is exactly the issue. They may be privately biting their nails while desperately trying to figure out a way to be able to conveniently sell DRM-corrupted ebooks to Sony, Kobo and Nook owners without surrendering control to a third party--Adobe.
And I'm sure a big part of the technical difficulty is that they would need to have a piece of software
installed on those ereaders--whose makers won't be thrilled about handing over some control to a company that is trying to drive them out of business.
I'm a capitalist who thoroughly appreciates any company's right to protect it's investment and ability to do business. But all this posturing over how to best restrict the customer's freedom is disgusting.
