Thread: Ectaco jetBook to add DRM format
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Old 09-22-2009, 10:58 AM   #6
bill_mchale
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Originally Posted by wallcraft View Post
B&N is eReader, although if you go to the B&N site you will see that many of the traditional phone O/S's have been dropped (WinMobile, Palm, S60). Note that FictionWise said that they will be migrating eReader to ePub (with B&N DRM, not Adobe), and I think dropping the "legacy" phones may be part of that migration.

It is unfortunate that we have a three way race (Kindle, Adobe and B&N) but that is the world that DRM creates.
Well, I wouldn't be too hasty to say that they are going to drop support entirely. I haven't looked at the B&N site yet, but if they are supporting epub, it might simply be a matter that they have not yet gotten things up and running on the other OS's. That being said, Palm's original OS might be a bit of a stretch since the Centro is now, I think, the only phone still using it. WinMobile has too large of a user base to just disregard.

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