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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
I'm wondering about Sony Reader for PC's continued ability to accept DRM books. (Yep, I'm a dummy in this area) When or if ADE 3 becomes the norm I'm going to assume that Sony Reader will be upgraded by Sony and still be able to directly accept ADE DRM books.
Would that be a reasonable assumption?
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If Sony wants to offer their own program to obtain books encrypted with this scheme, outside of ADE, then yes. They could also just abandon Sony Reader and point users to ADE 3.
Still, they'll need to upgrade the firmware of their devices so they can actually use that new DRM. If they don't, the readers will become useless for any book using the new DRM. (The same goes for any other EPUB-reader.) This is THE major pitfall of the new DRM scheme, and one reason why it might never catch on.