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Originally Posted by Hellmark
There are many DRM free epubs out there. Epub, without DRM, is not a propietary format. I have dozens of books in epub format, and only one with DRM.
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Yes but in the example of dedicated e-ink readers the manufacturers have had to use Adobe's reading software to give people the capability of purchasing ebooks with DRM. You're stuck with the limited features in Adobe's implementation so the format isn't relevant.
People are using ePub and Adobe Digital Editions as interchangeable and they're not. The limitations of Adobe's reader are not limitations of ePub. I can take a DRM free ePub and convert it to Mobipocket and get the reading features that are important to me so why do I have to use reading software that supports it native.
I've used Stanza on my iPod Touch and I find it annoying when it pauses to calculate the next chapter or when I accidentally tilt it and it recalculates for landscape. For the end user it's the features of the reading software that are important and not the format. You're never going to please everyone.
DRM should never have been part of ePub. It's goes against every intention of having a standard. Adobe and Overdrive have used their participation in the IDPF to corrupt it to allow DRM and it's killed it as a real standard that is relevant to the end user.