What Can We Learn from Barnes and Noble's Surprising Turnaround?

Re:What Can We Learn from Barnes and Noble's Surprising Turn... by criddell on Thursday December 29, 2022 @07:42AM (#34172049)

I don’t think Amazon’s KFX DRM has been fully broken yet. It’s at the cat-and-mouse stage. The DeDRM tools work for some books some days, and then Amazon tweaks something and it’s broken again. To me, it feels like the beginning of the end of easily cracked DRM.

There are KFX workarounds, like getting Amazon to provide the book in the older format, but then you lose all the features only present in the KFX format.

Or were you talking about epub? I used to buy epubs from the Google store but I only bought titles that weren’t DRMed. Are epubs from Google or Apple or Kobo easily cracked?

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Re:What Can We Learn from Barnes and Noble's Surprising Turn... by sircastor on Thursday December 29, 2022 @08:39PM (#34180659)

Epubs from most suppliers use Adobe’s solution. Which has been cracked for years.

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Re:What Can We Learn from Barnes and Noble's Surprising Turn... by criddell on Friday December 30, 2022 @06:45AM (#34184165)

I had to look it up. It looks like Google uses Adobe’s DRM, but Apple does not. They use their own DRM called FairPlay and it has not been cracked.

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