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Originally Posted by jocampo
How? If you don't live at USA, which address are you going to put there? Moreover, on a new device, how are you going to fix any hardware issue if B&N does not provide support out of USA? Just the shipping back to USA will exceed the cost of your initial purchase. Honestly, I think that you should not give that advice to someone who is learning about readers. B&N does not provide support outside of USA, period.
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As I've already stated, put in any USA address when registering the device. People move, in and out of a country, and B&N isn't going to verify your address or that you've moved to a new address. I gave two suggestions for an address to use. Hardware issues should be rare for eReaders. But you could contact B&N and tell them you're visiting family outside the country and wish to have the replacement shipped to where you're located. But as you've mentioned, the person will most likely have to cover for the cost of shipping in that case.
As to whether I should give this advice to someone that's learning about eReaders. Why not? This person is looking to buy books from multiple eStores. This will require stripping of DRM and converting between file formats. This might seem like easy stuff to do but is beyond the realm of a novice user. And the fact that the person is using this website and forums they have a link to a wealth of support and information if they have problems.
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Originally Posted by jocampo
Sorry, lot of misinformation on your comment. A book in epub format, let's say from B&N looks exactly the same on azw. Minor differences can be appreciated on those books with images, tables and complex layouts, even file size, but a novel reads exactly the same.
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No misinformation, that was exactly my point. ePub to mobi conversion isn't always 100% exact when it comes to formatting. And not all difference will be minor, depends on the type of book. Most people don't restrict their reading to novels only. Recipe, financial, and technology type books are more demanding when it comes to formatting. For older eBooks (when they were made available in a electronic format) are less of an issue since they were converted to use the digital formats available at the time. But going forward this divide will be more evident, more so when Amazon finally adds ePub support. The ePub format is an evolving open standard. They've released ePub 3 specs. which is a big leap forward in a digital publishing format.
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Originally Posted by jocampo
Amazon chose mobi long time before you and I started talking about epub. Nook or Sony were not even in the picture. Amazon was doing R&D with mobi already.
What has locked users is not a format but DRM, which is also implemented by B&N and Apple, among others. Conversion for DRM free books is a breeze via Calibre!
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Amazon bought mobipocket but Sony had an eInk eReader way before Amazon, the EBR-1000EP. Sony added ePub format support to it's eReaders starting in 2008. So it's not like mobi was created by Amazon or was tailor made for the Kindle.
Both the DRM and the proprietary azw format is what locks users. Sure you can convert using Calibre after removing the DRM but the average person won't do these things. And depending on where one lives it might not be legal to remove the DRM.