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Originally Posted by covingtoncat73
Amazon wants to sell Kindles, not books. If they wanted to sell books, they would sell ePubs as well as Mobis. Same with B&N. They want to sell Nooks, not books. They may sell ePubs but, due to DRM, they only work on Nooks.
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Actually that is not necessarily the case. You can read B&N ePubs with Bluefire Reader on iOS and most likely with other Adobe-RMSDK powered reading systems as well. Sony is a notable exception, because they have chosen not to update to the latest RMSDK (or any version of it since Nook shipped). I would not be surprised if Kobo reader could read them also, not that they would necessarily advertise the fact since they don't sell content with that form of the DRM.
The point is that B&N DRM is not proprietary to B&N, and is fully supported and available to anyone who licenses Adobe's client-side SDK, or purchases Adobe's content server. B&N and Adobe created this version to obviate the need to create Adobe IDs, authorize device with Adobe's server etc., thereby providing a more seamless user experience for B&N customers (authorization is still needed to read library books on Nook since it requires AdobeID etc.). Other vendors are free to do the same, and are also free to enable reading of so called "B&N" flavor in their reading systems.