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Old 01-27-2010, 04:53 PM   #14
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But now that you mentions it. Will apple use something from an other company, or use their own drm and renderer.
I doubt they'll use someone else's renderer. WebKit is an Apple project, and at the core of Safari and OS X. It's the engine used in ADE (modified).

I'd be willing to bet hard cash that iBooks uses a WebKit-based, Apple-designed epub renderer.

ADE DRM is besides the point. After you decrypt the file, it's still an epub. The iBookStore will use whatever, and it doesn't matter what form of DRM it will be: the content producers will make one epub file and then add whatever DRM system they need on top, Adobe's or Apple's or B&N's or whocares. Point being, the epub "source" will be checked against the iBooks renderer first.

It's where the money will be.

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