06-13-2013, 11:01 AM | #1 | |
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B&N discontinues Nook for PC
http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/11/b...ok-for-pc-mac/
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06-13-2013, 12:43 PM | #2 |
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I don't have a Nook OR use Nook for PC/Mac/iOS/Android. Still doesn't stop me from buying ebooks pretty regularly from them.
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06-13-2013, 12:45 PM | #3 |
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Why could you just download to your PC. I do that. I have not used the Nook for PC program in quite a while. You download the book to your PC and then you can move it from the Download directory to Calibre or directly to your ereader through USB. No need for the Nook for PC or Nook for Mac program.
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06-13-2013, 12:52 PM | #4 |
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I had assumed they would do away with the download button soon after this change. But it sounds like maybe Nook Study won't be discontinued, so they pretty much have to allow downloads still.
But I couldn't find a link from the B&N site to Nook Study, I finally found it by Googling for it. So I assumed they would be discontinuing Nook Study also. I'm still not 100% certain they won't eventually do away with Nook Study since there's no mention of it as one of their apps anymore. |
06-13-2013, 01:04 PM | #5 |
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I'd be very surprised if they got rid of the 'Download' button anytime soon. Still plenty of Nook devices out there for people to download and transfer to.
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06-13-2013, 01:12 PM | #6 |
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While Nook for PC is going away, Nook for Web is still available.
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06-13-2013, 01:14 PM | #7 |
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I have thousands of books in my Nook library at B&N, and downloading from the website is an order of magnitude harder and less reliable than downloading from the Nook for PC app. I'll have to check to see how easy it is to download from the Nook android app and transfer it to my PC.
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06-13-2013, 01:15 PM | #8 |
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Maybe they discontinued Nook for PC because nobody uses it and killing it for Nook for Web is economical from the standpoint of development and maintenance. I buy mostly from B&N, but use Nook for PC maybe once a year at best. Kinda sucks and don't like the current version of Nook for Web either, but have used Nook Study since they introduced it. And, by the way, you can find that on their site simply by typing Nook Study in the search box. My two copies seem to be working fine at present.
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06-13-2013, 01:30 PM | #9 |
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PS - Just checked in with Nook for Web and noticed some improvements. The main of these is a smooth transition between one-column and two-column formats. Still no way to read offline that I can see.
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06-13-2013, 02:17 PM | #10 | |
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The B&N DRM scam is not dependent upon their servers, just the data that you provide to make the purchase, something you should continue to have with or without "Nook 4 PC". If they were to go under they would close down their servers, not otherwise. Luck; Ken |
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06-13-2013, 02:31 PM | #11 |
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You could download and read with Adobe Digital Editions.
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06-13-2013, 02:46 PM | #12 |
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06-13-2013, 05:35 PM | #13 |
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The current version of ADE (finally) supports the B&N DRM. So you can use ADE just as a reader for your B&N books. This does not mean that your B&N books are suddenly tied to Adobe's server.
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