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Originally Posted by 6charlong
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.
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B&N allows any vendor, with an Adobe mobile Digital Editions license, to read B&N DRM. Kobo has all the required source code to do this, and could turn it on with almost no additional software development work required (it most likely took more work to turn it off). They don't allow B&N ebooks for marketing reasons, e.g. perhaps because they don't regard the US as a large market for them (or because their contract with Borders does not allow them to do so).