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Originally Posted by fjtorres
4- introduce and license a new (fourth!) ePub DRM scheme under their control and face the same regulatory threats as eating the costs of ADEPT
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I agree that Amazon is unlikely to ever offer DRM controlled by a 3rd party. There are a few signs that Amazon might add their own DRM to ePubs: a) the Kindle Previewer now reads ePub, and b) Amazon adds the original source (often ePub) to its AZW files. So Amazon might add either DRM-free ePub or ePub in an AZW wrapper (or both) to Kindle devices and apps. Their primary reason to do so would be to capture books that are too complicated for MOBI. A secondary reason is that many of the ebooks they get from major publishers are ePubs (so why bother to convert to MOBI if you don't have to).