Thread: HTC Touch Phones to get Adobe Digital Editions
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Old 03-16-2010, 02:02 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by wallcraft View Post
This is a function of how Adobe licenses its Reader technology. In the old days, Adobe would have produced their own reader apps for WinMobile, Android, iPhone, etcetera. These would have been free and widely available, because Adobe makes money every time you buy and download an Adobe ebook. Under the new Adobe approach, vendors get to pay money to Adobe to develop their own Reader and then Adobe gets to make money from all the ebooks that are bought for that Reader. It is a wonderful business to have the monopoly on ePub DRM. This means that phone makers like HTC try to lock you in to one particular type of DRM and one particular store front, and mobile providers, like T-Mobile (with B&N Reader bundled with its HD2), try to lock you into another.
Oh... that is just messed up.

I've been putting off breaking my Sony ePubs, but it's time to apply the sledge hammer.
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