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Originally Posted by HarryT
Sorry, I didn't express myself very well. You're right - ADE does do all the rendering. What I meant was that you don't have to pay Adobe their large fee if all you want is ePub rendering, because ePub is very easy to render, being HTML-based. The reason that a company licences ADE from Adobe is to be able to use DRM-protected books, which (other than B&N) all use Adobe's encryption technology.
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1. EPUB is nontrivial to render well. DRM is certainly much simpler than EPUB rendering.
2. Amazon already has a license for Reader Mobile SDK which they use to render PDF:
http://www.teleread.org/2009/05/06/k...y-to-speak-up/
3. B&N uses Adobe DRM as well, just a newer, lighter revision of it. That technology is being made available to other Reader Mobile SDK customers, so B&N books will not be locked to B&N devices only.