Thread: Any word from BN on Nook "give as gift" ?
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Old 03-07-2011, 08:35 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by taustin View Post
I suspect that there are technical hurdles, especially on the nook classics which can be used without being registered (and the color can, too, if you root it). The DRM the use uses the credit card number as part of the encryption key, so it's problematic to buy a ebook on your card and read it on someone else's.

Yet, we can read a "lent" ebook that has been bought on someone else's card. Seems like getting from there to gifting a specific ebook should not be such a long haul.

You might've nailed it with the unregistered Nooks, but it still seems they could enable such a feature and specify that you can only give an ebook to a registered BN.com account email address.

I'd really like this feature... I could gift hubby some replacements for his paperbacks, which he'd then let me donate to the library and get off our bookshelves. Gift cards aren't the same, as he'll mostly go buy something new with those.
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