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Old 10-15-2013, 05:49 AM   #75
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Originally Posted by cybmole View Post
I am not an apple person & not sure what you mean by "any other iPad ereader " but I naturally assume that apple store will lock the content ( with their DRM) so that it will not work on any non-apple device, and that you, the lowly author, have no say in their use of DRM.
Oh, by "any other iPad ereader" I meant, for example, Marvin (which at the moment is the only other ebook app I have on my iPad apart from iBooks).

I don't know how DRM works. I assumed that "one person" could own the ebook, but that you wouldn't be limited to how you used it -- like, in which reader you chose to view it in.

You got me curious about that, though! I currently only have one book with DRM -- I don't know how to get it from iBooks into another app, but I naturally have a backup of it on my PC so I emailed that to the iPad, then tried to open it in Marvin. It shows up in the library, but if I try to open it, then all I get is blank pages.

So indeed, as you say, if it's sold to work in iBooks (and with DRM), then it'll only work in iBooks.
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