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Old 12-07-2008, 06:56 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by Kris777 View Post
I hope EPUB will be universal ebook format very soon.
ePub has a major problem which is that the standard permits any DRM system to be used on the file, and for the result to be called "ePub". At the moment we have "Adobe Digital Editions" ePub files with Adobe DRM; shortly we'll also have ePub files with eReader DRM too. Who knows how many other additional DRM mechanisms we'll see added to "ePub" in the next year or two?

It all has the potential for massive confusion, with a maze of mutually incompatible files all (perfectly correctly) calling themselves "ePub" files.
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