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Originally Posted by 6charlong
I think that if we're going to try to pressure anyone we should try to pressure the hardware manufacturers to include all the secure formats except Mobipocket (because it won't work if there's another secure format on the same reader) and provide rendering engines for every DRM-free format as well.
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The DRM-free part is certainly doable.
As for DRM first the DRM providers need to make it possible for the device manufacturers.
eReader is in the works, Astak is working to bring it to their readers to go along with the Adobe DRM support they already offer, but it sounds like B&N being new to this arena is slowing the contract down a bit. I would assume once this has been done once (for the Astak devices) it will be an easier and smoother process for other manufacturers. Unless B&N suddenly pulls an Amazon.
MS Lit would be the other big DRM format, but being that MS has basically done nothing with the format for years and given it's current Windows/IE only restrictions I don't think there's much the device manufacturers can do. Unless MS starts up on it again.