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Yes but Its not proprietary to the specific bookstore selling the ebooks.
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The word "proprietary" simply means "somebody's property". That's all it means. ADE is absolutely unquestionably a proprietary DRM technology. It is owned by Adobe.
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That's my point. Anyone can support ADE, Amazon chooses not to while the rest of the ereader do.
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Anybody who chooses to pay Adobe large sums of money can support ADE, certainly. Just as anybody can choose to have their books sold by Amazon. It's a free market. ADE is no more and no less proprietary than Amazon's DRM system. Both are owned by companies who are in business to make money. There's nothing wrong with that.
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Joe is making claims that Google and others have their own Special DRM slapped on their books. and that's not true.
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I certainly didn't interpret his post as saying that.