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Originally Posted by Barcey
... 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....
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Sure it is, the minute ePUB chose not to define a way to extract and display an ePUB file it was a flaw in the format. There is a reason why all the other existing formats impose a requirement on how to extract and display eBooks.
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Originally Posted by Barcey
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.
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Sure but then why bother with ePUB most of the popular formats can easily be shifted except for PDF and LRF.
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Originally Posted by Barcey
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.
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It wasn't and that is why DRM ePUB is such a mess. If DRM was built into ePUB then it would have lived up to it's
claim to fame which is one format for all eBook readers. Instead it left DRM up to the distributor and now we continue the tower of Bable, but with far more confusion.
If DRM was included it would have been the DVD market for eBooks any DVD player that supported the DVD standard could play any movie. That was great for the consumer! Because DVDs where a commodity so the prices where driven down, both for the players and the DVDs. However not allowing DRM is like the Blue-Ray/HD-DVD wars where people had to chose which format they think will win, until there is only one. (So far there is no competition to Adobe) Since there is one market leader that controls the standard (DRM ePUB) all vendors must pay Adobe to even make it in the market this is going to keep the prices of eInks up there.
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