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Originally Posted by jasonkchapman
Since the Adobe/B&N solution is both portable and multi-vendor, the above should read "everyone else needs to adopt the new ePub/social-DRM scheme or get out of e-books." This is the first thing to come along that stands a chance of delivering on promises of "any vendor/any device" without a phone-home dependency. I don't see the big deal.
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Actually, after working a bit with both server-sign-in-based and password-protected schemes, I disagree. When you have to sign into an account to activate, you can get away with remembering just one username/password pair (which you can update as time goes by). If you buy books from multiple vendors, you have to remember what is username and password used at each place. I am not saying that the existing AdobeID scheme is better (it has its drawbacks), but it has its advantages.
Phone-home is a different thing altogether, more about the app rather than format. You can have no DRM at all and phone home like crazy.