eBooks aquired from iBooks

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Originally Posted by Philippe Lemay

As a devoute Apple Hater I reserve the right to rage and teen drama as much as I want.

But seriously, Do we know if they are planning on releasing a PC version of this Desktop-iBooks? Because I'm not ready to pay 300$ more for a computer just to get the Apple logo on my comp (and the assorted bells and whistles that come with that logo).

Also, long story short: is it possible to buy ePub books that can play on anything? Or would that require some kind of jailbreaking hax business?

You can certainly buy ePub books that play on any reader or device that supports ePub which excludes the Kindle primarily. Most everything else can use ePub just fine. DRM applied to ePub will limit your choices a bit more. Most devices can use Adobe DRM just fine, including library book checkout but a few cannot. Other forms of DRM have even less support. Some DRM schemes have been cracked but this may be illegal.

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Originally Posted by Philippe Lemay

I didn't know that iBooks would be wrapped in DRM, I thought that ePub was by it's very nature universal, and when I heard Apple uses ePub as it's eBooks format I was all like "Oh, awesome for once!"
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Dont be fooled ALL the major retailer have DRM on thier Epubs, you have to strip the drm to use them on multiple devices. They all advertise that they have drm free epubs, but you look and most of all the drm free epubs are already public domain books.

Kobo,Sony,and most use the ADE drm Barns & noble has thier own drm, Amazon uses thier own drm verson of mobipocket , and apple uses the same DRM on thier books that they use on thier music/movies.

you can download a program called caliber and strip the drm and then load them into your ibooks library if you like ibooks and read them. or if you rather a different ereader app like kobo reader you can load it into that as well.