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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
That part sucks. Whereas pretty much everyone who uses ePub uses Adobe's DRM'd version, B&N adopted a variation of it; effectively denying access to all but the Nook.
Seems dumb to lock out other ereaders when they go out of their way to make their store compatible with other devices - Apple, Android, PC, Mac, and Blackberry.
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In B&N's defense, their DRM has been incorporated into Adobe, so any device maker that wants to can use it. In addition, there are reasons to prefer B&N DRM to other forms of DRM. The most important is that it doesn't depend on having your device registered. If Adobe gets out of the DRM game tomorrow, all ebooks with Adobe DRM will be readable only on the devices they are already readable on. B&N's epub books will work on any device that has the software on it.
In addition, the Jetbooks also support B&N epub.
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Bill