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Old 09-22-2009, 03:47 PM   #17
bill_mchale
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Originally Posted by Donnageddon View Post
But Fictionwise does use DRM for their "secure" ebooks. It is only the "multiformat" ebooks that do not have DRM.
Well granted. But at least for Fictionwise (We will see about B&N), it was their preference to publish in "multiformat". They only offered "secure" versions when the publishers mandated it.

Ultimately, the problem is that epub is only part of a standard. There is no standard for DRM. I suspect that in large part, the reason there is no standard is that it allows the publishers to keep coming up with new DRM schemes to try and keep a head of the hackers who inevitably break the DRM within days of its release.

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