Thread: "The book industry is gonna get Napstered..."
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Old 07-27-2009, 06:58 AM   #396
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Originally Posted by anappo View Post
1. Why is it that there is no e-book reading device that supports more than one DRM-scheme? For a hardware manufacturer, it would be a huge advantage against their competition if their device supported as much of the commercial content as possible. It would be technically trivial to do that. Yet it is not happening. The new Opus gadget for example, comes in two versions - one with prc support, one with epub. They have software for both formats running on the same hardware. Yet they are not selling you a device that supports both. What causes them to piss away that advantage?
Actually, Sony Reader supports both Sony's own BBeB/Marlin DRM and Adobe's ADEPT.
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