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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
wow Harry, i've never seen anyone go to so much trouble to undermine a format, particularly one which is the new industry standard (a good thing to have) and actually a very good, well-designed format, which is infinitely more suited to ebooks than any other existing format.
rather that spreading a bunch of FUD among our members, why don't you try to address this concern by mentioning it to hadrien, since we are lucky enough to have someone who is actually a member of ipdf as a moderator ? perhaps he can tell you how they intend to address this, or transmit your concerns to ipdf so that it can be addressed.
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It's not "FUD" - it's a
very real problem with the format, which I've been pointing out since its inception, and which has now come to fruition with the announcement that eReader are going to add their DRM mechanism to ePub. I completely, 100%, agree with you that the ePub format itself is excellent, but the "plug in any DRM you like" aspect of it is a
major issue, and one which
needs to be pointed out.
Hadrien is as aware of the issue as I am - he doesn't need me to point it out to him. I shall, however, do as you suggest and see what his take on the matter is.
It's a lot
worse than the issues with the previous "industry standard", OEB, since at least with that, you got different "terminal formats" with the different DRM schemes - Microsoft Reader LIT format with one DRM scheme, MobiPocket with another, etc. With ePub, we could end up with half a dozen
different formats, all (correctly) describing themselves as "ePub" and all mutually incompatible.
Hiding our heads in the sand and saying "it's the fault of DRM, not the fault of ePub" isn't going to make the problem go away!
It's an important issue which needs to be brought to people's attention!