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Originally Posted by HarryT
What you're paying Adobe for isn't really the renderer - it's the DRM system and use of their DRM servers. The ePub rendering isn't really the issue - it's basically just HTML, and not hard to render.
Unfortunately, if Amazon were to adopt ePub, but not not use Adobe's DRM system we really wouldn't be any better off - we'd still have an incompatible format. One of the problems with ePub is that DRM isn't part of the defined standard; anybody can bolt their own DRM system on to ePub and still call the result "ePub", even if no other software than their own can read it.
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Well maybe not so much the rendering on screen but the formatting for the renderer is done by it from what I have read. I think Amazon might be able to manage a deal with Adobe for the drm but I don't think it would do them as much good but was not Amazon saying they were planing to expand ebook sales to other devices? At the time I was thinking they meant other ebook readers not just iPhone.