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Originally Posted by J. Strnad
My point about the DRM is that epub is losing the format war, not because it's an inferior format, but because its adherents saddled it with incompatible DRM that meant that, for instance, you couldn't read an ebook purchased at B&N on your Kobo. The big advantage of "any ebook on any device" that epub had, disappeared because the epub retailers were busy competing with one another when they should have banded together to compete with Amazon.
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See, I know it's a sexy new meme to say that ePUBs from Kobo are a different format from ePUBs at B&N, but people need to understand what that means.
The only difference between the format is the DRM. Once the DRM is stripped off -- via a variety of different means, I might add -- the ePUB is an ePUB is an ePUB. You can buy any ePUB from any store and as long as you yank off the DRM, you can load it to any ePUB reader. Which is to say ALL OF THEM that aren't marked as Kindle.
I have 5 eReaders in the house. All of them read ePUB. Most of them support BOTH Adobe and B&N DRM.
It's okay for you to do what you want with your books, but please stop spreading this meme like Kobo ePUBs are fundamentally different from B&N ePUBs. They're far more similar to each other than, say, mobi and topaz are to one another (as far as I know -- I'm not an expert on the topaz format) and many, many eReaders and eReader apps support both Adobe and B&N DRM. No eReader supports Amazon DRM except Kindles.