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Originally Posted by YGG-
"To hope is to prepare for disappointment"  (who said that? can't remember)... what can we do for them to see the light, do you think?  |
i think we can write to publishers explaining (politely !) why drm is a bad idea. we can also support all publishers who make their books available without drm, to show there is a market for those books. (oh, and i prefer the expression "l'espoir fait vivre", "hope keeps you alive."
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Originally Posted by netseeker
Ok, just for clarification: Bookeen is a european company and at the moment it's clear that europe is a growing market for them. It seems as the european publishers and book retailers decided to prefer DRMed ePubs and a cooperation with Weltbild, one of the biggest book retailers in europe, is maybe the best deal Bookeen ever made. I'm pretty sure Bookeen would like to offer Mobipocket side by side with ePub and both with DRM-support. Unfortunately Mobipocket doesn't allow the usage of their DRM if the device supports another DRM system. What could Bookeen do? Offer ePub without DRM support and die because their customers just can't get a noteworthy amount of DRM-less titles in non-english languages? It wouldn't make sense and hence it seems as Bookeen decided to offer two firmwares: One for europe with support of DRMed ePub and another one for the english-speaking regions with support of DRMed Mobipocket. I can understand such an decision.
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yes, that's very well explained netseeker. i also can understand such a decision, it seems to be the only logical way for bookeen to proceed in the circumstances.