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Originally Posted by GeoffR
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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But there's a lot of generic readers out there that won't be getting updated firmware because the company isn't around any more or the company doesn't support the hardware anymore.
Off the top of my head: BeBook, Aztak, iRiver, Cool-er are just a few of the former. Sony, Asus, Samsung, are candidates for the latter.
Remember, the Adept ecosystem is populated by a horde of small players on both the hardware and bookstore side. The reason they signed on with Adobe was to reduce their required effort and resource commitment and even a small effort might be an unwelcome/unaffordable burden.