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Originally Posted by oj829
(The conference host insisted that Adobe was going to disable the customers' option of configuring ACS5 to fulfill with RMSDK9-compatible downloads come July. Nice to know that Big Customers get pushed around by Adobe just like us little guys.).
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So Adobe, a company that basically has NOTHING to do with ebooks, is the main controlling entity of EPUB and its DRM. They also control PDF for documents and DNG for photographs.
It's just another example that is telling us that Adobe is becoming way too big and out of control. The fact that they can move an entire de-facto industry standard application suite into a subscription model because customers have nowhere else to go (there are alternatives to Adobe programs, but face it, they are just not as powerful, or at the very least, work very differently), should have set off a lot of alarms.
Since then, I actively tend to avoid Adobe software, but with regard to Flash, Adobe Reader and Digital Editions, I can't. Without Flash, half the internet stops working, I need Adobe Reader for work, and there is no alternative for Digtial Editions. Maybe Sony Reader, but I've never tested that and don't know if Alf can handle that software.
Someone should start taking a serious look at Adobe, just the way it was done at Microsoft, Apple, and (now, almost) Google.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I think you are being optimistic.
I think it's going to be a big mess. People who never really noticed or cared about DRM are suddenly going to find that newly bought books won't work on their ebook readers.
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Precisely. I have replaced my entire paper library with ebooks already, and apart from the Forgotten Realms books, all of my series are complete, from the start up until 2014. I have a TBR-list of about 500 books now, excluding classics, which means I can be reading for another 8-10 years at my current pace. If I can't de-DRM books, it may be a VERY long time before I buy new stuff again.