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Originally Posted by Verena
@ Abelturd
ok - YOU don't want the EPub ... But my public library offers many drmed books for free only to read with the Adobe Digital Editions program (acsm-files). So I wanna read my stuff with this groundbreakin' thing.
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why did you go for the Cybook when you need ePub DRM? Not that I don't encourage wishful thinking but buying a device which says it will eventually support the format I am mainly interested in seems a little overenthusiastic - unless I am really, really patient (which I am not :-)
Not to spoil your day but there are a few things you might want to consider:
1) There will have to be a new firmware for existing Cybook users with mobi DRM (I really doubt they can ditch all their customers who already bought DRMed mobi books). This FW will - with reasonable certainty - not handle DRMed ePub (that might change when Amazon yields to pressure but I would not bet money on that happening very soon).
2) Whether a second FW with ePub DRM (and without mobi DRM) will be available for current Cybook users is not certain. Given that you could just take the Weltbild FW which will eventually leak into the wild, I expect there will be one eventually but we do not know when. Plus, you would have to own a Cybook with the new hardware and risk losing support if you put an unofficial FW on your device.
3) If they release an official FW for existing customers with ePub DRM I would assume that ePub support will be a little flakey at first and need at least one more update to get most things right. And that's not because I think Bookeen hasn't tested their stuff, it's just the way it is when there is a major change in the existing code (and ePub DRM is entirely new code). There is not one software company who I would trust to release something on that scale without some flaws the first time around.
So, if you need ePub DRM really badly, why not go for the Weltbild edition (if you don't want to go for another company)? If you already bought it, then your options are limited: sitting it out or trying to trade it for the Weltbild edition...