Thread: Beginning to think that Ereader DRM will not happen
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Old 10-21-2009, 06:02 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by jwsheets View Post
I just spoke to a rep at B&N. He said that the epub and pdf books they will be offering will be exclusive to the Nook or their software, they have no plans to broaden the scope to include other readers at this time.

Also, spoke to a Sony rep who said the same thing. Although they are moving to epub as their format, the epubs are in pdb format with drm exclusive to Sony readers with no plan to offer them to other reader devices.
Both reps are wrong, or at least "no plans to broaden the scope" does not mean that other devices are excluded. See Adobe and Barnes & Noble eBook Collaboration. There is only one DRM provider, Adobe, and any device fully supporting ADE will be able to read any DRMed ePub. Reader vendors are free not to fully implement ADE, but ebook providers have no way I am aware of to lock ePubs to a subset of ADE devices.
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