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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Agreed. I envision that unless this new DRM scheme is broken, and quickly, that my DRM-free TBR list is going to be receiving a lot of long-overdue attention, because I will NOT be buying books I cannot own. I'll be dammed if I'll tie the future of my library to the continued success of any one company. The entire history of business is that businesses come and go. I want books that will be readable and researchable even if Adobe goes belly-up; which, judging from the way they've been ticking off their customer base lately with their decision to move all their apps to the cloud and their schemes to screw over customers who read on electronic devices, may come sooner rather than later.
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The issue isn't Adobe going out of business so much as Adobe walking away from the DRM business. Adobe isn't making much money off Adept and at some point the beancounters are going to squawk so they might spin the unit to off sink or swim on its own. And then "sink" would be a likely option.