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Old 11-16-2017, 07:33 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak View Post
You can learn a bit more about Adobe Content Server (the software retailers licence to manage their Adobe DRM'd sales)...

http://www.adobe.com/solutions/ebook...nt-server.html


These are old numbers and I wouldn't be surprised if they've gone up, but ACS was about $6,500 for the initial license and around $1,500 a year in "service" fees, and then there is a per book fee as well, for a permanent license like you'd have with a retail sale it's around $0.22-$0.25 per book sale, for loans like through a public library the fee is reduced to around $0.08 per temporary license.
Do you know when the book charge is made? Is it at sale time or when the book is downloaded. If if is the latter, it would partly explain why Kobo have kept up their own format. People using Kobo devices or apps can download directly from the store. And they might never download the epub2 version. Which would mean no fee to Adobe. And that might be worth it to Kobo.
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