Thread: What books are allowed on the new Kobo & B&N readers?
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Old 05-24-2011, 07:32 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by wallcraft View Post
B&N does not pay per ebook royalties to Adobe, which gives them a competitive advantage over Kobo and the other Adobe clients. Amazon also owns their DRM, which is why everyone assumes that they would use their own DRM rather than Adobe's if they ever decide to support ePub on their devices and apps.
And yet B&N is always priced the same or higher than Kobo when I search Inkmesh for books. This is anecdata, of course, but B&N books are not significantly discounted - and they NEVER offer ebook coupons.

I do get 3% my purchases from them via my credit card, but that includes everything they sell, not just ebooks. If having their own DRM is keeping them competitively priced, I don't see it.

And how does that work, anyway? The B&N DRM is Adobe based, is it not? So how is B&N putting their own spin on it preventing them from paying royalties?
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