Thread: Fictionwise explains ePub delays
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Old 08-12-2008, 04:22 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by 6charlong View Post
after all, ePub is an open format
As you quote Fictionwise saying, EPUB is open but DRM for EPUB is not. Which makes "sense" -- DRM is based on secrets concealed from the content-consumers, leaving "open DRM" an oxymoron. Right now those few EPUB books sold are more properly "Adobe Digital Editions EPUB" books -- until someone cracks Adobe's ADEPT DRM scheme those books are tied to DE just as strongly as any of the previous e-book formats were tied to their vendor's viewers. The real potential of EPUB won't become reality until publishers follow the music industry and leave behind their DRM security blanket.

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