Thread: Classic B&N Switching to ePub a Sneaky Move?
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Old 12-21-2009, 01:30 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by JJoyce View Post
Alright.


I'm not going to descend to the level of slinging slurs and insults as some obviously have.

But for those that seem so convinced that B&N is some big evil monster destroying ebooks, here's the reality of it.

Barnes and Noble chose to adopt Adobe ePub solution for their conversion from ereader format.

As part of that process, Adobe executives decided they liked B&N's "social protection" built in to the existing ereader DRM scheme. So much so that they agreed to license it from B&N to incorporate it in to their ePub DRM, creating two authentication options; the pre-existing one and the username/password combination licensed from B&N.
What really happened is that B&N decided they wanted eReader type DRM for ePub and so they went to Adobe and convinced this to add to the DRM server. So we'll have CS5 in 2010. And if you read the post before yours, you will see a very well posted post on the mess B&N has created.
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