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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
I'm REALLY annoyed by all this talk that Adobe may put out a new DRM that makes it backwards incompatible. Inexcusable, especially considering the number of books out there that have been sold and the fact that there are new devices every year. People can't be expected to rebuy their entire library. A lot of customers aren't savvy enough to do any playing with files. And some of us don't WANT to have to do even if we can figure it out!
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To be fair to Adobe, the current change doesn't affect your already-purchased ebooks. You will continue to be able to read them on your existing devices and on any devices that use the new DRM. New devices using the new DRM with also still be able to read the older DRM.
Of course, this might not be the case after another five years.
What it will affect is newly purchased ebooks. At some point (undetermined, but probably withing the year), new ebooks will be forced to use the new DRM and will be unreadable on older devices, unless they get a firmware upgrade.