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Originally Posted by ahi
What are you talking about?
You've been telling people for months (years?) that ePub's ascendancy and ultimate domination of the eBook market to the exclusion of all other formats is a foregone conclusion.
Were you just guessing? Or--Darwin forbid!--were you wrong?
- Ahi
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Given that we are getting more and more readers out there with ADE/ePub, I do feel that ePub will be the dominant format. But if we have different DRM on ePub, then what will happen is it will cause chaos and confusion. And lead to yet more tower of eBable issues. If a reader says it will handle ePub, I want it to handle ePub no matter what store I bought it from. Also, if the Plastic Logic as sold by B&N has ePub support but the DRM is their own DRM, then it won't be any use for checking out ePub from public libraries. A lot of people don't know about DRM in any real detail. Having a second DRM to ePub will cause a lot of confusion and purchases that won't work.
We've already seen the sort of confusion that can happen just by incorrectly using the term eReader. Some people have bought eReader format eBooks for a Sony Reader because it's been referred to on MR as a Sony eReader and then Fictionwise says eReader is recommended. Now if B&N sells ePub with their own DRM, I can easily see people with a Sony, Cool-er, Bookeen, etc buying from B&N just to find they do not work. This can turn people off to the format. We don't need this added layer of confusion as we already have enough eBook confusion based on what we have now.