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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
If that's the case, then why sell ebooks with drm that can only be used by their own ereaders? I know enough to strip drm, but most people don't.
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Indeed. Why.
Tells you about how B&N has run Nook, no?
My best guess (and it's just a guess) is they are cribbing.
And they're cribbing from Apple more than Amazon. Problem is B&N is no Apple.
For Amazon a proprietary DRM makes sense--no adobe tax=competitive advantage--but Nook *is* paying Adobe to support their drm anyway!
If they *only* supported the ereader DRM, it would make some sense. If the *store* supported both--like Kobo does--it would make sense. Supporting both on hardware but only one at the store? I dunno...
As is, they aggressively drove all profits out of the hardware so their only revenue is the books.