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Originally Posted by JJoyce
I guess I'll try this one more time, so...
From everything we've been told and shown, this ISN'T Barnes & Noble introducing some new DRM scheme.
This is Barnes and Noble using Adobe encryption with a new authentication scheme that Adobe's incorporating in to the new Adobe Reader SDKs and the next version of Adobe Digital Editions.
It's all part of the greater consortium that's pushing to standardize on Adobe DRM for the ePub format.
It's a great thing for ebooks that have been divided by incompatible formats.
But apparently that's a bad thing as it's become obvious that what's upsetting you is that these standardized ePubs Adobe's pulling together are going to have DRM on them.
You know what? I really don't care if they do or don't.
As long as the files can be read by a nook or a Sony or a Plastic Logic device or whatever e-reader supports what appears to be heading toward an eventual standardization of the Adobe solution, Adobe can use uncrackable elliptical curve ciphers and one time pads for their DRM implementation for all I care.
DRM in the publishing industry is a fact of life for now and will be for the immediate future.
If it has to be around, better for it to be one solution (Adobe) as opposed to Amazon, sony, Borders, Barnes and Noble all coming up with different formats that aren't interoperable.
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You don't get it.
This is B&N introducing a new DRM scheme. We already have a standard DRM with ePub. B&N comes along and decides they want a different DRM. So they create this new DRM and convince Adobe to go along with it. Just because Adobe goes along with it doesn't make it any less wrong then it already is. DRM is bad enough as it is. But to have two DRM schemes on ePub is just wrong. Adobe did not decide to come out with this new DRM. B&N did it. And what B&N did was to get Adobe to agree to it. Hence CS5 due out in 2010.
But on B&N's website, they are selling ePub. They don't say they are. They say they sell eReader. So if you buy a newly released eBook, there's a good chance it will be in ePub. And because you bought it from B&N, chances are you wanted eReader. But if you do download the sample and find that it is ePub and then decide you want the eBook, you go ahead and purchase it. But then you find you have no use for it as you cannot do anything with it because the DRM is different. You don't know this is why it's useless. You just think something is wrong with either the eBook or ADE.
So to sell ePub with a new DRM without telling anyone is a very sneaky move.
As of right now, these ePub with this new DRM are not standardized. The ePub with the original DRM are the standardized ones. All Readers with ADE can display ePub with the original DRM. Only the nook can display ePub with the new DRM. That makes it non-standard for now. I have no idea if other companies will go for it. But until they do, this new DRM needs to go away. And if it did go away, we would not have any problems with B&N selling it without notifying the customers.