[Houndx]

Wow, for people who are willing to spend several hundred dollars on reading devices I'm seeing a real problem here with reading comprehension.

The situation before was-
Stores A, B, and C sell epubs. Readers A, B and C can read epubs sold from either store A, B or C. This was a good thing. You knew that buying an epub meant that you could read it.


The situation now is-
Stores A, B, C and D sell epubs. Readers A, B, C and D can read epubs sold from stores A, B, and C but only reader D can read epubs sold from store D. To compound this issue, store D does not make it clear anywhere on their site that their epubs are different and only work on reader D. Further, store D implies that their epubs will work with readers A, B and C. Additionally, books from store D used to work on non-traditional readers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 but now only work on non-traditional readers 1, 4, and 5 but their website specifically says that all the old non-traditional readers still work. Hey, to make it even worse there's almost a 100% chance that non-traditional readers 2 and 6 will NEVER be updated to work and the chances that readers A, B and C will be updated to work with the new DRM scheme are, at best, 50/50 each.

Let's boil it down for readers who cannot comprehend. Which of the two examples given above LOOKS more simple? The first, right? Right. It's B&N's fault that the first went away and that the second is now the reality, and that is why some people aren't happy about it. It's not that DRM exists, etc. It's that the new reality of epubs has gone from simple to stupidly complex.