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Originally Posted by llreader
Well, my assumption is based on the fact that that is the way it works right now. Go to books.google.com and try it.
I am not sure about all the ins and outs of DRM, and I don't have a reader yet, so I may be making some incorrect assumptions, but ePub seems to have some standard ways of working (for example, you can take books out of a public library) that don't require tight integration between the reader and the book provider.
Does that sound plausible to you? Google does provide books in ePub format now, so if you want to think concretely about how a DRM scheme like this would work, I would start there.
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Thanks llreader, but Google hasn't started providing this service yet. They currently have books at books.google, but this is not the same service they are planning to introduce in the future. With their current service you can download entire books in PDF and/or ePub formats if the book is in the public domain. For books not in the public domain, they normally only let you view portions of essentially a PDF view of the book, and no caching of content is involved in this process (unless you count browser cache).