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snipenekkid · 03-04-2011, 08:03 AM

Nobody has directly mentioned the real reason one cannot read DRM EPUB and DRM MOBI/Amazon on the same dedicated reader device. It is the owners of the DRM scheme used that prevent devices from supporting multiple DRM schemes. Adobe and the old MOBI were both at fault for this situation. MOBI would not allow a device maker to license their DRM unless it was exclusive and Adobe took the same position with their DRM, ADE which is currently used in a HUGE number of titles.

However I have yet to encounter a single title out in DRM'd ADE that I could not also find at Amazon. Now with the Agency pricing this might change some time in the future as Apple uses their iOS numbers to seduce the bean counters at the various publishing houses over to the idea of "...just sell on iOS". I suspect the reason for all of this BS with iOS/Apple is Jobs simply cannot allow himself to admit he has backed the company into a corner here. He cannot hope to challenge Amazon or even B&N on his own platform simply because the others allow users to buy and then read on pretty much any device. no amount of spin doctoring can overcome those facts.

And the true reason no other device maker is allowing iBooks on their platform is the entire DRM issue. Add to that Apple introducing yet ANOTHER DRM scheme, which by the way limits reading of the books to ONLY iOS devices and who knows when Apple will decide to stop supporting older iOS devices forcing people to buy a new device or lose content, period. Plus if Apple did decide to license their DRM Apple would expected to also be paid to allow the device maker to use the format on their device.

And consider this really nobody buys an iOS device to use iBooks yet they do indeed buy an iOS device to use Kindle4iOS, Kobo and B&N apps.

So really it has little to nothing to do with the other device makers at all. It's about Apple's own closed door policy concerning content finally painting them Apple shaped rear-ends into a corner. Apple needs to suck it up and admit to their unofficial/official policy of "...if you don't buy it in the Apple store you can't read it on our hardware so piss-off ya losers."

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snipenekkid Banned Posts: 760 Karma: 51034 Join Date: Feb 2009	Nobody has directly mentioned the real reason one cannot read DRM EPUB and DRM MOBI/Amazon on the same dedicated reader device. It is the owners of the DRM scheme used that prevent devices from supporting multiple DRM schemes. Adobe and the old MOBI were both at fault for this situation. MOBI would not allow a device maker to license their DRM unless it was exclusive and Adobe took the same position with their DRM, ADE which is currently used in a HUGE number of titles. However I have yet to encounter a single title out in DRM'd ADE that I could not also find at Amazon. Now with the Agency pricing this might change some time in the future as Apple uses their iOS numbers to seduce the bean counters at the various publishing houses over to the idea of "...just sell on iOS". I suspect the reason for all of this BS with iOS/Apple is Jobs simply cannot allow himself to admit he has backed the company into a corner here. He cannot hope to challenge Amazon or even B&N on his own platform simply because the others allow users to buy and then read on pretty much any device. no amount of spin doctoring can overcome those facts. And the true reason no other device maker is allowing iBooks on their platform is the entire DRM issue. Add to that Apple introducing yet ANOTHER DRM scheme, which by the way limits reading of the books to ONLY iOS devices and who knows when Apple will decide to stop supporting older iOS devices forcing people to buy a new device or lose content, period. Plus if Apple did decide to license their DRM Apple would expected to also be paid to allow the device maker to use the format on their device. And consider this really nobody buys an iOS device to use iBooks yet they do indeed buy an iOS device to use Kindle4iOS, Kobo and B&N apps. So really it has little to nothing to do with the other device makers at all. It's about Apple's own closed door policy concerning content finally painting them Apple shaped rear-ends into a corner. Apple needs to suck it up and admit to their unofficial/official policy of "...if you don't buy it in the Apple store you can't read it on our hardware so piss-off ya losers." Last edited by snipenekkid; 03-04-2011 at 08:06 AM.