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Originally Posted by murraypaul
One source, one reference implementation.
The company defining the DRM is the same as the company implementing it, so will have already decided to do the implementation.
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And if Amazon decides to harden their DRM? Though Adobe hasn't gotten far with their hardened DRM, Amazon being monolithic may feel that hardening their DRM makes business sense.
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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Chances are that some will and some won't.
Some will just include it in their new readers, and not update old ones.
Some will update the current generation and not older ones.
Some will be able to support it directly on the device, others may require some sort of PC app to handle sideloading it.
Result will likely to be a mess, and lead to a worse user experience.
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For my uses, borrowing from most of my libraries involves Kobo and their DRM so no worries. If Kobo start using the new DRM, I would suspect they would continue to support their current DRM, possibly on a device by device basis, until either updates have been made available or the devices have got EOL.
As for a PC app? Quite a few people I know are happily using ADE to handle both library borrows and purchased DRMed epubs so switching to a new app is not going to be that big an issue for them. This is assuming that the new DRM manages to rapidly displace Adobe's ACS infrastructure which I personally see as unlikely in the short term in North America.
For those who are using old eInk ereaders, say the Sony line, it is unlikely any updates will happen. But then updates for Windows XP are not available either.