Cybmole posted this in the
Sony forum - Anyone buying backup Readers?, but I think the link and greater discussion should be here, although some of the info in the article has already been aired here, I'm not sure it all has (although the Mods may have different ideas)
Publishers Weekly has written an article that includes info like this:
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Adobe India supports and runs several well known applications, such as the Macromedia suite, and it is full of skilled and adroit engineers. When the ACS ball was tossed to them, they went around and asked publishers and ACS resellers what kinds of improvements they wanted to see.
Of course, that’s like asking a bank if more fees on customer services is a good idea, and sure enough, publishers said, “Please make the DRM harder, so we can break all the pesky DRM hacks that have spread around the Internet.”
And the Adobe India engineers did just that, as well as adding improved support for EPUB3.
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The article has a number of interesting links, including the
Datalogics blog
Quote:
After receiving feedback from customers and webinar attendees, Adobe has revised the migration timetable for customers. “Adobe does not plan to stop support for ACS 4 or RMSDK 9.
ACS 5 books will be delivered to the older RMSDK 9 based readers”, according to Shameer Ayyappan, Senior Product Manager at Adobe.
“We will let our resellers and publishers decide when they wish to set the DRM flag on ACS 5, thus enforcing the need for RMSDK 10 based readers.”
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