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Originally Posted by HarryT
But, with the greatest respect, it's really not the case, is it? Yes, the ePub file format is widely used, but the problem is that there are three, mutually incompatible, DRM mechanisms in widespread use for ePub books, so if you want the big-name authors you describe, you still face "lock-in" unless you are prepared to remove DRM, and perhaps not even then, given that one of the three ePub DRM mechanisms can't (currently) be removed.
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Sure it is. I can't speak for the UK and Europe but here in North America almost all the major ebook stores use ePub via the Adobe ADE DRM scheme which makes it irrelevant where you buy your books and what you read them on.
Almost all the ebook readers used Adbode ADE decoder and all the top ebookstores Kobo, Google books, Sony etc use the same scheme. So I can get my Dean Koontz fix on whether I want to buy from Google to Kobo etc.