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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
If a purchased ePub doc was registered to you upon purchase, and could be converted for any device you owned, that might solve most of the copy protection concerns. Mind you, it would probably require keeping an updated list of every device you own, which, if you think about it, is telling someone else what devices you have (one of those privacy things). But if you're okay with that, it should work.
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I don't care about people knowing what devices I own.
But see my comment about ePub being an
intermediate format.
In my scenario,
I don't use it:
publishers do. They use it as a universal ebook markup format, and feed it to processes that take the ePub format as input and spit out Mobipocket, Sony LRF, and other electronic formats.
I buy whichever format is supported on my devices. Conversion to that desired format is someone else's problem.
If ePub ever becomes enough of an adopted standard that everyone issues ePub format books, and ePub viewers are available for a wide range of devices, I
can use an ePub document directly, and your suggestion becomes unnecessary.
I'm just cynical about that adoption of the standard happening any time soon.
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Dennis