Mobipocket are rumoured to have a long-standing policy of only licensing their Mobipocket software if it's the
only DRM format on a dedicated reader. Up until now, this has served them well. But not any more. In Europe, ePUB is becoming the format of choice, as it's an open format, and more capable (in principle) than Mobipocket.
Amazon, who owns Mobipocket, don't seem to care about this, as otherwise I suspect they'd change their licensing terms.
I too have bought a lot of DRMed Mobipocket eBooks. But in my case they seem to have lost the DRM somehow. I'd prefer at the moment to keep to Mobipocket devices, as although the format is not as capable, the implementation is more mature than ePUB at the moment - user selectable justification, user selectable fonts, good font size range, dictionary lookup.
But I suspect that in five years time, I'll have ePUB based readers, and will have converted all my Mobipocket books.
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Originally Posted by donbrubaker
I just got an email from Bebook (who's current reader natively supports Mobi-DRM) and here’s what they say about the DRM support for their 2 new models scheduled to be out Q3 2009, Bebook Mini and the Bebook 2:
Both Models only support Adobe DRM (ePub and PDF)
Is this an issue for anyone else? Should I just pick up an original Bebook at the reduced price? Or should I go with one of the new readers and convert my mobi to ePub? Thoughts?
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