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Originally Posted by wallcraft
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).
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I agree, but at this point B&N has to be aware that their special flavor of DRM is limiting the number of devices that can play their books. Whether or not it's Kobo's fault for not utilizing the required source code is a moot point - if B&N is losing sales over this issue (and I have no research to indicate they are/aren't - this is hypothetical), then the onus is on B&n to change things.
(Similarly, if Kobo was losing sales over this issue, THEY should change things. But I suspect most people will see this as B&N's fault for wanting their special flavor of DRM in the first place.)
A good question is why B&N isn't changing their special DRM to plain-vanilla-Adobe DRM. Their devices can already read it and it's rapidly becoming if not the industry standard, then at least more industry standard than B&N's flavor.
