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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Yes, if you're completely divorced from commercial reality.
Also, we know they're not working with the people who make the renderer for 99% of ePub's, Adobe. So they'd need to licence an entire different renderer and get other people to put it on their device. Riiiight...
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But you know that wont happen for a fact right?
I never said it was going to happen or even that it was likely, however given that ADE has set the bar for readability on various devices it may be that Apple decide they want something at least as good. maybe part of teh deal with publishers pushed for apple releasing the ability for other mnafacturers to be able to licence the renderer thus providing better leverage against amazon. it would certainly give the iBook site an advantage over Amazon. and teh publishers seem fine with that type of DRM as evidenced by them using ADE.
or as I suspect your device will have to run the iBooks program(itunes) to allow ou to read the books, that would mean that any future ebook or tablet running a full OS might be able to get the books anyway.
you keep pushing that Apple will lock down the books as much as possible but you dont know that really.
I can clearly see taht when the microsoft courier is released that iTunes will run on it and then... ibooks from Apple on there too?
who knows.