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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Strictly speaking, it is the retailers that adopt the overbearing DRM that will be losing money if, as many here suggest, customers take their business to Amazon.
I do think that there are several ways this could play out, most of which would render the whole effort by Adobe futile. The only way it will really be significant is if they do implement it in the most restrictive of ways to their client bookstores.
ADOBE might be that desperate for relevance but I wouldn't assume it upfront.
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Booksellers like Kobo have contracts with Adobe. I would think that Adobe would be more likely to refuse to continue to contract for the older scheme than for booksellers to adopt it just because they can. Now if publishers insist that sellers encrypt using the new one...
Kobo has not done anything to improve/change/invest time in the epub experience (talking about the epub css etc, not the firmware/device decisions) in a very long time. I am sure that Kobo's preference is for people to buy their own proprietary format. And now that Kobo formatted books can be Alf'd, it might very well make the epub issue a non-starter for people buying from Kobo.