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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Could even be a bit of a "last hurrah" powerplay between Adobe and the Big 5 against Amazon. If they get ePub ebooks/devices/vendors/libraries all locked down with "Hardened DRM," how much leverage would the publishers then have to force Amazon's hand (by withholding titles) concerning their own (now clearly insufficient) proprietary DRM?
The "upgrade" would still have to happen almost all at once to be able to pull something like that off, so I don't see anything like that really having much of a chance of succeeding.
Mostly, I see it hurting the smaller ePub stores and helping Amazon if resellers were forced (piecemeal) to adopt the more strict DRM scheme "at gunpoint." And if it's not at gunpoint, I can't see them upgrading at all.
Interesting times ahead.
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If that's what Adobe and the BPH all think, then they all have their heads firmly entrenched up their read ends. When people install ADE 3.0 to a new computer and start downloading ePub that they cannot use with their existing Reader/app/whatever they use to read with and there is no update available to handle the new DRM, then this is when Amazon wins. This is when people jump ship from ePub and arch on over to Amazon because Amazon still works. I don't see how this can be a strategy that will do anything but give more business to Amazon.