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Old 03-23-2011, 05:10 AM   #383
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Originally Posted by bhartman36 View Post
If you really wanted to have an open format that everyone could read on any device, the simplest thing in the world would be to release books in DOC or even TXT format. But then you've got another potential problem: People releasing modified versions of their favorite books and calling them their own (or at least heavily copying and pasting to plagiarize). Is that a reasonable fear, or am I just up way too late?
It's not a reasonable fear. And in any case, DRM doesn't prevent it. And DC and TXT are terrible formats for an ebook. ePub without DRM is an easily-editable format.
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