Thread: Classic B&N Switching to ePub a Sneaky Move?
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Old 12-14-2009, 03:22 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by JJoyce View Post
I think you may be misreading a few things.

First, I do know that B&N's switch to ePub has been heavily publicized by both B&N and Adobe.

The choice not to have some indication in their eBook store of which is which is bizarre and a bad judgment call.

On the DRM angle...

If Jim Lester's lurking around, I'm sure he could speak to this much better than I, but...

The sense I get from having seen B&N/Adobe's announcements and Adobe's FAQs on the topic suggest that B&N is using the same underlying DRM scheme for ePub as everyone using Adobe's solutions. Just modified to use the credit card/password authentication option that Adobe licensed from B&N.

Supposedly other devices should support B&N ePubs after the manufacturer updates them to support Adobe's newest SDK.
But unless people know what's going on, they'll end up buying ePub that they don't want with DRM they cannot use.
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