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Old 01-28-2010, 10:04 AM   #463
akira28
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Originally Posted by deltop View Post
http://blogs.adobe.com/digitaleditions/

Although just a blog entry it seems that the iPad won't be using Adobe's drm but Apple's own flavour. So no good for library books or ebooks bought from other stores. Unless we do see some 3rd party apps with that capability.

"Although Apple has standardized on the EPUB format, because it employs its own DRM to protect eBooks consumers will lose out on much of the benefit of an interoperable format simply because they won't be able to transfer content across devices. "
Very disturbing news, if it winds up true. This means that Apple's use of DRM is not due to concern with protecting the rights of authors but only with locking you into its own platform. Where's that protest form?
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