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Originally Posted by boswd
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.
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But the biggest ePub retailer in the US, B&N, uses a DRM mechanism which none of the other major readers can currently handle. They could license it, certainly, but as yet they haven't. You know that's true.
I would still maintain that the cautious buyer really needs to know how to remove DRM, and should ideally do so as soon as a book is purchased. That's the only way to "future proof" your purchases.