03-16-2010, 10:24 AM | #1 |
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Will my Sony DRM'ed Epubs work on iPad?
I am considering the move.....that would seal the deal.....will the Epubs that I bought on my Sony Reader work on the iPad?
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03-16-2010, 10:26 AM | #2 |
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To the best of my knowledge, there is no App for reading DRM-protected ePub books available.
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03-16-2010, 11:11 AM | #8 |
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I am more than likely jumping ship on Sony soon. My 505 had a good run but I doubt the Sony store will last. My choices were the kindle and iPad (well I was getting an ipad anyway, but as an ereader now). I WILL NOT tell you how to do it but I can assure you, all of my ebooks purchased through Sony are on my iPhone as we speak, resting quite nicely in the Stanza app, just waiting to be transfered into the iBook app on the iPad. Reason for me going ipad: the three biggest stores, all on one reader. Barnes and Noble has an ipad app coming, amazon has the iPhone app so it would make sense for an ipad version, and just like how iTunes took over music downloads, I can see the iBook store blowing up.
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You have to remove the DRM -- and you can google for solutions. I haven't any Sony books, but I have a "friend" who removed the DRM from his Kindle books to read on Stanza now, and the iPad book app later.
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I'm not sure if TXTR will have an app for the iPad, but I put my drm'd Sony epubs on my iPod Touch using TXTR. I'm not overly fond of the app, but at least I can now read those books, too.
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Yep, just drm free those books. Just finished removing drm on my fictionwise .pdb books. All in anticipation of using the converted epub with ibooks.
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I've never tried to ready a sony formatted book, so I don't know if there is such an app. Lee |
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AFAIK the txtr app is the only iphone app which supports adobe drm. And it displays those fine. Txtr announced back when the iPad was first launched that they would be working on an iPad app. |
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