Thread: What books are allowed on the new Kobo & B&N readers?
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Old 05-24-2011, 04:59 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by 6charlong View Post
It seems odd that B&N would hobble their book store like this. I had a vague memory that I needed to never buy books from B&N but I'd forgotten the reason. It seems counter-intuitive for B&N to allow nook owners can buy books from B&N's competitors but prevent owners of other devices from buying books from B&N.

Thanks to all of you. I may have known all this at one time but frankly, it seems unnecessarily confusing. It seems like the publishers ought to get together and insist on some standardization. It must harm them as well as us readers.

Thanks again.
I'm not sure that B&N meant for this to happen - way back when they came out with their flavor of Adobe DRM, the scuttlebutt was that the B&N flavor would be flowed to other devices that also supported Adobe DRM.

This hasn't happened for reasons that I can't begin to guess at but it might be because Kobo and Sony don't consider reading B&N books a high priority.

But, yes, you are right - the practical upshot is that B&N is left with a device that can read lots of formats, but a store that sells a very limiting one.
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