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Old 08-28-2011, 09:39 AM   #32
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
The issue is probably that these textbooks already exist in PDF format, hence offering them for renting is just a case of adding the DRM wrapper around the existing PDF. Reformatting them in ePub would be a massive undertaking, and one which the publisher probably wouldn't consider to be economically viable.
And even for textbooks that have not been converted to ebook yet, the conversion to PDF is just one click, whereas the conversion to ePub with all that formatting would be a tremendous headache.

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