Thread: Sony, Google and Barnes & Noble To Partner For Sales of Google Books [April Fools]
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Old 04-01-2009, 10:34 AM   #33
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Originally Posted by rhadin View Post
Kovid, aren't you jumping the gun a bit? Besides, ePub was always DRM neutral. It was/is just a formatting scheme. Aren't the current eBabel problems a combination of incompatible formats + incompatible DRM schemes? If the trio do as they say, maybe what we are looking at is mor along the lines of a universal format (ePub) combined with a type of social DRM that enables publishers to identify those who buy an ebook and then make it freely available on the Internet to anyone and everyone. If so, I don't think that is so bad.
I'm pretty sure this is an April Fool's joke.
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