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Originally Posted by tirsales
Really - whats the point of DRM?
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It makes content providers happy.
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Regarding ePub as an intermediate formate .. Why not give ePub to the customer? Your reader-software could be able to convert ePub to the reader-format on the fly and without the user knowing, or the reader could support ePub directly.
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Doing the conversion on the publisher's end doesn't require updates the the reader software. If the reader software
does get an update, it makes more sense for the update to be native support of ePub documents.
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But I dont really care about the format - as long as it is an open standard, easy to implement (e.g. NOT ooxml) and uses no drm whatsoever.
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Good luck on the last. But remember that DRM and ebook format are two separate issues. All ebook publishers may standardize on ePub as the format, but I doub't they'll standardize on the same DRM schemes.
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Dennis