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I'm not sure what this has to do with Nooks. I think I was replying to a comparison of Apple and Samsung sales which was mentioned. Barry |
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Another item of note is that Samsung is losing the largest number of customers to devices such as the OnePlus 6T, Pixel 3 and Huawei P20/P30 family. Apple owners are less likely to switch since they would have to abandon the Apple ecosystem. |
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As @Zodwallop asked, trying to return to the topic: :-) To me, as you mentioned on p1 of the thread, Nook hardware has often had the most thoughtful, reader-centric design and features compared with reading-focused devices such as Kindle and Fire. To take a current example off their site, the Galaxy Tab A (7" Nook tablet) is a nice piece of hardware, optimized for reading regular books with a nearly perfect sized screen, and a lot of value at its price point. And they used to have the very nice Samsung Galaxy S2 8" tablet, also optimized for reading. If it weren't for other issues with BN, I'd choose quality devices like these over a Fire, any day. The problem with BN has never been the hardware but their practices about DRM. Which makes it a hassle to purchase their ebooks, decrypt, and use on any device. Lately it sounds like it has gotten worse. They've been doing this for a long time, and this fact kept me from ever buying a Nook, even though I often admired their hardware and features. All this, plus their more recent, acute financial problems, have gotten me to the point I wouldn't consider one of their devices, despite the nice hardware. |
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The Nook HD+ was a nice media consumption tablet for its time but it was crippled at launch by a lack of content. Tying it to the...sparse... Nook media store was not helpful. By the time B&N gave up fighting users over sideloading and tied it to the Play store they had already started spiraling to disaster and Play store access only served to facilitate the exodus away from the Nook store.
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But thanks for the permission to carry on. And to continue with the quotes: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."—Ralph Waldo Emerson "—where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise." Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College Thomas Grey |
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I bought one of those $50 Fires on a Black Friday sale and don't like it at all. Yeah, you can sideload the Play Store, but why bother when B&N gives it to you out of the box at the same price? And you're still stuck with the crappy Amazon launcher, which I don't think can be changed (at least it couldn't when I still cared enough to check). Quote:
When I bought the Simple Touch w/Glowlight B&N mentioned the openness of the Nook in their marketing materials. And if they didn't advertise their easily crackable 'social DRM', it was at least an open secret. That all changed with the Nook Glowlight, which ditched the SD card yet not giving the user much room for sideloading. In that same time frame they changed their DRM scheme without notice. |
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If they've changed to a harder to crack DRM recently, that's news to me. I rarely buy from them, but I recently bought an expensive academic book that Amazon didn't have, any my existing DeDRM inside of Calibre still decoded it expertly. |
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Very early in the life of Nook, they sold epubs that used that DRM. About a year or so later they switched to a proprietary ADOBE variant and in 2015 they switched away from that one. https://the-digital-reader.com/2015/...your-business/ |
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Thanks for those good answers. I own a lot of Nook books and I've used the pre 2015 and post 2015 versions. But, encrypted files are certainly not within the definition of Social DRM, so it seems misleading to call it that.
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