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Old 02-04-2014, 07:36 PM   #436
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Wow. I didn't realize this would make all existing epub readers obsolete! This is absolutely the dumbest thing I have ever heard. The comment about libraries is a good one--they barely have enough readers to satisfy their patrons now. If they have to start over, they might just give up on electronic books.

Haven't publishers objected to this? This sends everybody to Amazon!
It wouldn't make existing readers obsolete, they would just require a firmware update. As long as the firmware update happened before the DRM update, most readers would never notice that anything had changed.
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