Thread: DRM books from Calibre to Kobo blank
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Old 06-25-2011, 09:51 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by PeterT View Post
Ah.... I just saw mention of iBooks... Sorry... not at all sure of the DRM present within Apple eBooks.
Hi,

This is not a Calibre problem. Welcome to the world of DRM lock-in! Apple's iBooks purchased epubs are NOT compatible with any other epub viewer. Apple decided to use a variation of its own FairPlay DRM which is not compatible at all with Adobe DRM and has not been broken. I'm not even sure anyone cares enough to even try to break it.

Sorry but your Kobo reader simply will never be able to read a DRM iBooks epub. This is why I never buy ebooks via Apple iBooks store. Instead find the same book someplace else (Kobos, Sony, Amazon, etc) and if need be, remove the DRM and make it a standard epub and add it to iBooks for reading.

Vendor lock-in via DRM should be illegal.

My 2 cents.
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