Comments on: It’s Simple: ePub is Open, Except When It’s Wrapped in DRM, And Then It’s Not http://ereads.com/2009/08/its-simple-epub-is-open-except-when-its.html Read the latest publishing news and provocative blogs by top commentators in the traditional and digital publishing fields. Mon, 21 May 2012 03:15:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Richard Curtis http://ereads.com/2009/08/its-simple-epub-is-open-except-when-its.html/comment-page-1#comment-149 Richard Curtis Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:36:03 +0000 http://ereadsdev.com/?p=743#comment-149 Damn! Just when I thought I'd gotten it completely right...<br />RC Damn! Just when I thought I'd gotten it completely right…
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]]> By: Aaron Pressman http://ereads.com/2009/08/its-simple-epub-is-open-except-when-its.html/comment-page-1#comment-148 Aaron Pressman Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:26:06 +0000 http://ereadsdev.com/?p=743#comment-148 Richard,<br />Your headline is dead-on and I agree with most of this post. But a slight correction: Sony's ebooks are switching to ePub format wrapped with ADOBE's DRM. This is not open, as you point out, but is used by some other device makers and could, with Adobe's permission/licensing, be used by more Sony competitors in the future. It's not under Sony's control. It still inconveniences consumers and devalues ebooks. But at least it reduces the "lock in" factor.<br />-Aaron Richard,
Your headline is dead-on and I agree with most of this post. But a slight correction: Sony's ebooks are switching to ePub format wrapped with ADOBE's DRM. This is not open, as you point out, but is used by some other device makers and could, with Adobe's permission/licensing, be used by more Sony competitors in the future. It's not under Sony's control. It still inconveniences consumers and devalues ebooks. But at least it reduces the "lock in" factor.
-Aaron

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