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As a subscriber to conspiracy theories, I suspect that KKR will impose a new encryption technique, using blockchain technology, that will be forced upon Adobe Digital Editions. There will be backward compatibility with existing purchased books, but new releases will be encoded using a more secure encryption scheme. Why? To better monetize the value of books, and extract a larger fee from publishers for the conversion process. If their works are less likely to be pirated, the companies may be willing to fork over extra cash. A new generation of eReaders may be required, which makes the manufacturers happy, but the owners of existing eReaders angry/resentful. However, given that the output of an ebook must eventually appear as plaintext, bruteforce screen readers may become more commonplace. Nevertheless, the presence of xerox machines and scanners has not been the default methodology of book copying and epub generation.
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