Thread: Why is it good that Sony went epub?
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Old 12-13-2009, 03:51 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by sahmad88 View Post
Please forgive my ignorance in this post, but I am a bit confused about something.

It seems like people were pretty jazzed about the Sony Reader Store going to epub because it is a more universal format. Or at least that is the impression I had. But what good is this format if it is DRM-ed?

As an experiment, I tried buying a book from Barnes & Noble in epub. I made sure it was inexpensive because I knew this might not work. I tried to put it on my Sony Reader and of course it says my reader is not authorized. I wasn't surprised, but I was hoping it would let me enter in my information to "unlock" the book for this device.

So if we are still locked in to using purchases on specific devices, then what good is epub? Like I said, sorry if this is a dumb question, but I feel like I am missing something here.
Unless I'm mistaken, B&N don't have epub available yet. What book did you buy?

Epub is standard. DRM is not necessarily. If the B&N server allows you to register you Sony Device then you would be able to read it there.
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