Thread: Books removed from fictionwise?
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Old 08-09-2010, 07:42 PM   #325
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck View Post
Barnes & Noble doesn't want a non-DRM, multi-device ebookstore (with a better search engine) competing with their our-software-only, our-devices-only ebookstore that ties into their physical bookstore.

It looks very much like BN acquired Fictionwise in order to kill it.
I thought BN acquired Fictionwise to get their hands on the rights to the eReader DRM, which they then applied to epub as well. It actually takes the books away from the 'our-devices-only' and allows for as many devices as have access to ADE updated software to use BN ebooks.

I don't like DRM, but if there is going to be DRM, I would rather it be something like BN uses, which I can control than something like Adept or Kindle which is server based.
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