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Originally Posted by MyDK

Readium LCP is a reality:
https://www.edrlab.org/2017/09/20/de...cp-mobile-app/
And it will become a DRM standard for ebooks within next 3 years:
https://www.edrlab.org/2018/09/11/an...-iso-standard/
They are also considering including PDF. So, in Europe I am sure, it will be accepted and used

Are you sure?
The French aren't part of the process:

USA, UK, China, Republic of Korea, Japan, Lebanon, Russia have all voted yes (France is not part of this SC34 Committee). The draft submitted to the ISO members is clearly based on Readium LCP; the USA representative, George Kerscher, has formally insisted that the future standard must be “a standardization of the existing LCP”.

Last I heard there is a separate french DRM that Sony adopted.

https://the-digital-reader.com/2015/...new-ebook-drm/

Dunno if anybody is actually selling ebooks with it, though.

A caution: what they voted on was casting the specification in concrete as an official international standard (a good thing that epub alone never thought to do) but there are hundreds of ISO standards that are ignored or barely used.

There is a difference between "paper standards", defacto standards, and supported standards.

It is a step forward but just that.
Until others *stop* using existing DRM schemes, all this does is increase epub forking by one more.

https://xkcd.com/927/