Thread: Nook 1.5 or Kindle 3?
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Old 12-14-2010, 11:18 AM   #83
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Originally Posted by jocampo View Post
Opinion here. What could be a niche store for you, it could not be for me. So this is not a fact, it is your opinion.




This is not correct. Sir, I am telling you, I have MOBI books, "as is", that I bought from others bookstores and I am able to read those on my Kindle! Please! Get the facts or check online. There are lot of bookstores where you can download books in mobi format for your Kindle.




Really? how ... ... the CEO and B&N directors, don' know how ...please take a look, taken from http://www.investmentu.com/2010/Augu...-book-war.html:






B&N ePub has it's own DRM scheme, at least today. If the site is closed or something happen, still you can download your books locally but you will have to break the DRM protection to "release" your ePub file or book. So it gives you a false sense of freedom; not because is ePub, is universal and swappable between devices, the main issue is the DRM protection which of course, is implemented on Kindles too.

I think we agree in something and is that DRM protection is affecting the end user. But book's availability or being tied up to a device is strictly dependent of the books you like and read, more a user's preference than something related to the book's format itself. I actually don't read ePub books from public libraries or Google, I don't need those and the format is horrible, with missing TOC. Like me, there are similar users and that does not limit us at all.

I don't get you mr joecampo, you lecture people about not mixing in opinons with facts but that seems to be your mantra against the nook color with the whole LCD vs eink and also your opinon about the future of BN it'self with posting outdate opinion based articles. that link is nothing more than an opinon based blog. and what about Facts you always say to post? Where have do you see facts that Barnes and Noble and Borders are IN CONVERSTIONS, all we have as way of facts is a hedge fund owner said they would fund Border's merge with BN. A far cry from those two sitting down as we speak.
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