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Originally Posted by polly
You never did answer the question about what happens when the device is DOA or stops working a few weeks after delivery. B&N is quite clear that they don't support foreign markets and will not support readers outside of the US.
So suppose that this reader in India does manage to buy a Nook and avoid creating a B&N account. How is he going to update the firmware without that B&N account that requires the credit card? I knew soldiers in Germany who had B&N accounts and still had a hard time getting the firmware updated from there. I thought the original firmware for the Nook was slow, difficult to navigate, and poorly organized. I've heard it's gotten better since then, but that takes us back to being able to upgrade.
The OP already said that he's not interested in buying books from anywhere, so I'm not sure why you continue to harp on this topic. I can tell you from experience that B&N expects both an American credit card and an American IP address before they will even discuss the Nook or their ebooks with you.
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*sigh* I have said multiple times that if technical support/warranty is going to be a main concern, I would choose the Sony due to their stronger International presence over the amazon and the nook. Contrary to beliefs by some Amazon does not have a presence or a support staff for every region of the earth. Sony would come closet out of all of them
the part I was disputing was the claim you can not use the nook outside the US. Now while it is true that to set up a nook barnes and noble account and to purchase and be part of the nook/bn ecosystem, you do need an american address and credit card.
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If you skip over the setting up a Barnes and noble account the nook works as a regular ereader, just not with the Barnes and noble bookstore behind it. but you can shop other ebookstores, download supported formats from ebookstores on your nook no matter where you are in the world just as long as the ebookstore uses an ePub, PDB or PDF formats.
that's what I was disputing, I never said the nook was the best overall device outside the US. I was merely correcting a distortion that it was unusable outside the US.