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Originally Posted by Trubu
It's not B&N's "own" DRM for ePub - any ADE licensee will be able to use it, as I understand.
It's the same DRM concept that's been in use for years for Peanut Press/Palm Reader/eReader and it's a lot less onerous to the consumer than almost any other DRM format we could be saddled with. Current implementations of ADE are fine when they work, but when they don't, they're opaque, consumer-unfriendly, and incredibly frustrating. Social DRM is much easier and friendlier - I can share books with anyone whom I'm comfortable giving my CC # to.
I don't really understand the hair-on-fire nature of your post (especially considering we've known about the additions to ADE's DRM for quite a while now).
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Yes, we know of them. But most people don't. And B&N are selling ePub without telling you so. And they are using this new DRM without telling you so. So, if you go to B&N and get a sample and see that it's ePub, you might think, great B&N are supporting ePub and buy the book only to find out it's useless to you because the reader you own doesn't support this DRM. And from what we know, the SDK for this new DRM is not even available until sometime 2010 and then it'll take time for the companies to implement it if they even are. So for right now, B&N is just making a mess of things that used to work.