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Originally Posted by deltop
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.
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Adobe would certainly know if Apple was using Adobe DRM. There is a good reason why Apple is not using Adobe - licensing fees. They had to use ePub because publishers demand it, but publishers don't care about interoperability of DRM only that DRM be present. It is cheaper for Apple to use its own DRM rather than Adobe's DRM.
Don't forget that Apple bans 3rd party apps that compete with its own revenue streams. So it isn't clear that there will be any 3rd party ebook readers for the iPad that use DRM. This would exclude Stanza (eReader DRM), Kindle, eReader, B&N, and any Adobe DRM ebook reader (e.g. the one from txtr).