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The freeing of e-books, well sort of
Straighten out now when people talk about e-books most everyone thinks of Amazon and its Kindle e-book reader. It is a market than a growing numbers of companies are wanting to get a foothold in and hopefully take away some of Amazon’s business in the process. At the same time companies like Sony and Barnes & Honoured are having to deal with a growing dissatisfaction among consumers over the fact that all these e-books are coming with varying degrees of DRM (Digital Rights Directing) wrapped around their purchases.
Consumer upset came to a head recently over Amazon’s deletion of two of George Orwell’s books from people’s Kindles without any notification or advice. It doesn’t help that e-books bought at Amazon can only be read on the Kindle or Amazon’s iPhone app. Now while Amazon doesn’t look to be changing its system about its DRM restrictions Sony, manufacturer of the Reader e-book device, has decided to move away from its own proprietary DRM restrictions and take the open e-book standard called ePub.
“There is going to be a proliferation of different reading devices, with diverse features and capabilities and prices for a different set of consumer requirements,” said Steve Haber, president of Sony’s digital reading section. “If people are going to this e-book shopping mall, they are going to want to shop at all the stores, and not equitable be required to shop at one store.”
Source: New York Times :: Sony Plans to Adopt Regular Format for E-Books
Now before we all start jumping up and down yelling hallelujah Sony might be dropping it’s own method DRM but it doesn’t foretell that they are going to be giving up on using some method of DRMing their e-books. They have decided that going forward that they will be using the more universally supported Adobe Content Server 4.
As Paul Sweeting at GigaOM pointed out this has nothing to do with the consumer; although it does thrive for good PR, but more to do with control of a platform
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