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Originally Posted by rkomar
Also, I doubt that the cost of ADE is borne mostly by the device maker. It would make more sense to build that cost into the books, as the cost to Adobe probably scales with the number of books rather than the number of devices.
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Actually, Adobe charges both ends.
Yes, they charge booksellers. But they also charge hardware (and reader app) developers, so there is a direct bundled cost to consumers for the DRM support.
(And that is why Amazon doesn't support epub; they don't want to pay Adobe or, field support calls by the million.
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