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Originally Posted by HarryT
Sorry, I didn't express myself very well. You're right - ADE does do all the rendering. What I meant was that you don't have to pay Adobe their large fee if all you want is ePub rendering, because ePub is very easy to render, being HTML-based. The reason that a company licences ADE from Adobe is to be able to use DRM-protected books, which (other than B&N) all use Adobe's encryption technology.
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Actually, B&N's new DRM is also from Adobe. B&N managed to get Adobe to go along with this even though it's rather bad for business. It means that people will go over to B&N to purchase ePub and then find they don't work like they should. This is a bad idea and B&N needs to stop this or get out of eBooks.