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Dear Wallcraft:
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Originally Posted by wallcraft
I don't think there is much concern about password-DRM for new device types, this seems almost automatic, so what 6charlong is asking about is existing devices.
Note that B&N is already providing password-protected ePubs for the Nook and for its Reader apps (Windows PCs, Macs, iPhone). These ePubs are already guaranteed to work on any mobile ADE device that support password-DRM. We just need the capability implemented. However, when the FAQ said "later in 2009" I assume Adobe now means early on 2010, i.e. like most software it is probably running late.
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Dear Wallcraft:
You cannot port (implement the new features) until you get an SDK for Linux devices. This has been 1 year in the making so far and no sign it is ready to ship. You also need to sign a contract and that contract is about 45 pages of legal language that even Fictionwise cannot interpret or translate. Plus, if it is "exclusive" we would have to dump ADE (which we will not do). It is not as simple as you say, my friend, with all respect to you!
You cannot port (implement the new features) until you get an SDK for Linux devices. This has been 1 year in the making so far and no sign it is ready to ship. You also need to sign a contract and that contract is about 45 pages of legal language that even Fictionwise cannot interpret or translate. Plus, if it is "exclusive" we would have to dump ADE (which we will not do). It is not as simple as you say, my friend, with all respect to you! |
I hope wallcraft and RobertB are talking about two entirely separate things.
RobertB appears to be talking about an SDK from Fictionwise for rendering the eReader format with (and most likely without) DRM.
Wallcraft was talking about the Adobe Reader Mobile SDK 9.1 which is shipping Real Soon Now ( I do mean that
- I'll edit to put in the exact 2009 date after marketing announces ), and is already preported to Linux.
Edit: RMSDK 9.1 shipped to customers Dec. 15 2009
For reading the ePubs from B&N ( that B&N is current serving and shifting to using instead of the eReader format ) you'll need the Adobe Reader Mobile SDK version 9.1 or above (and not any SDK from Fictionwise).
Note however this is not a complete panacea, since Adobe needs to get our act together as well. For devices with no keyboard support, such as the Astak devices (Robert, please correct me if I'm wrong about the keyboard support), Adobe Digital Editions needs to be updated to not only support the new password DRM but also to send the key information to the device while tethered to the desktop computer, where you have entered in the password. Until this is done it's fairly academic if the device supports the Password flavor of DRM, since there is no way to enter the password on those device
While we will do this with the release of Digital Editions that includes the updated RMSDK, I strongly doubt it will make it out by summer of 2010.
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Jim Lester
Adobe Systems