Thread: Penguin UK with some ePub books to try out
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Old 09-04-2008, 05:38 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel View Post
YEAH BABY !!!! EPUB FROM PENGUIN !!!!! brilliant news !! thanks for the link !
DRM-protected ePub such as this is no more portable than any other format. Less so at the moment, in fact; to the best of my knowledge, the Sony PRS-505 is the only eBook Reader which can read it.

That's the problem - you take an open standard like ePub and add to it the ability for anyone to add to it whatever custom DRM they want. The end result is inevitably a confusing mess of mutually-incompatible eBooks. If company "A" and company "B" each add their own DRM, inevitable some devices will be able to read company A's books, other devices will be able to read company B's books, and the poor consumer gets stuck with a mess.

That's why I'm still rather skeptical about the idea of ePub as an "end-user" format. I just don't see it as a solution to the "e-Babel" situation at all.
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