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johnnytruant · 09-02-2008, 10:37 AM

So, I've been talking to a number of UK publishers. Most of them are gagging to get their back catalogues online, but they are all about the secure ePub as their format of choice. Just after mobipocket's DRM was finally cracked too, dammit*.

Anyone know if the iLiad can handle, or has plans to be able to handle, secure ePub? I know I can do non-secured ePubs with fbreader (thanks Adam!).

* note: I don't want to steal books. I just want to own - not lease - the ones I've paid for. On the plus side, every publisher was broadly anti-DRM, and are hoping to be DRM-free in the future. They all said that right now - in an emerging ebook market etc - it was very hard for them to sell DRM-free to authors/author's agents/etc. Cf the mp3 market - started all DRM-d up, then slowly started to unclench over the last couple of years.

09-02-2008, 10:37 AM	#1
johnnytruant Member Posts: 23 Karma: 149 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: iRex iLiad, Aura HD	secure ePub on iLiad So, I've been talking to a number of UK publishers. Most of them are gagging to get their back catalogues online, but they are all about the secure ePub as their format of choice. Just after mobipocket's DRM was finally cracked too, dammit. Anyone know if the iLiad can handle, or has plans to be able to handle, secure ePub? I know I can do non-secured ePubs with fbreader (thanks Adam!). note: I don't want to steal books. I just want to own - not lease - the ones I've paid for. On the plus side, every publisher was broadly anti-DRM, and are hoping to be DRM-free in the future. They all said that right now - in an emerging ebook market etc - it was very hard for them to sell DRM-free to authors/author's agents/etc. Cf the mp3 market - started all DRM-d up, then slowly started to unclench over the last couple of years.