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@gcastro Great!!! That's what I was hoping to hear. As there are no legal or technical problems with Sony consuming B&N's DRM, it's all up to them. If they are working on it, I'm a happy camper!
@Katti's Cat Not a stupid question. There are two reasons.
1. B&N designed a new DRM implementation using Adobe's SDK that can do more than the old one does. That's why you can lend books to friends and whatnot.
2. Until the other hardware makers update their firmware to include B&N's update, the old readers will not be able to read B&N DRM'd files.
On a somewhat related note, Amazon may well stick with a DRM that no one else can use because they have the biggest ebook library and that's a huge selling point for the kindle. Other manufacturers seemed to have picked up on this and that's why they standardized (or tried to) on ePub with Adobe DRM.
@kennyc and HarryT: That is correct, B&N is not using ePub yet. Neither is Sony. (I've been buying files from all of the different libraries and testing them with different software configurations in preparation for my ereader purchase.)
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