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Originally Posted by jocampo
. . . Both stores locked you into their store. It can be the case but they are expecting from you to buy directly from them. They really want you to buy from them directly because they make money with ebooks, not ereaders not as much as with books
Regarding side loading, you can certainly sideload on Nook and sideload on Kindle 3. There is no such thing that being locked or excessive freedom because the other reader uses ePub. Most best sellers are in Amazon store or even in mobi format, there is no issue there. I've seen cases where the opposite is also true, books on Amazon but not on B&N or with a higher price.
Library lending? Amazon will provide it at the end of the year.
Conclusion: the problem is the DRM thing and B&N and Amazon they both are "guilty" of not letting the user do whatever they want after purchasing a book, without recurring to DRM removal scripts.
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No both are NOT the same, because ALL of the Nooks can now read DRM protected books purchased not only from B&N, but also from Kobo, Google, Sony, and Borders,
WITHOUT having to resort to removing the DRM.
NONE of the Kindle models can read ANY books from ANY other DRM protected source.
Kindle owners like to bather on about the fact that there are "jus hudreds and hudreds" of books stores were you can buy "praticly anythin you want" in MOBI format without DRM (assuming that you don't want to do business with Amazon for some silly reason), but this is just a flat out lie.
If not a lie, then tell me all the Stores selling Harper Collins, Doubleday, Picket, Penguin, Scribners or ANY other mainstream publishers titles, for mainstream authors like Tom Clancy, Dean Koontz, Stephen King, John Grisham, Lee Child, James Patterson, etc, WITHOUT DRM.
If you own a Nook, you can buy books published by EVERY SINGLE ONE of the above publishers, from EVERY SINGLE ONE of the above authors, from AT LEAST FIVE DIFFERENT MAJOR ONLINE BOOKSTORES, B&N, Sony, Borders, Google, and Kobo (just to name a few, there may be others); Then you can very easily sideload these books onto a Nook WITHOUT REMOVING THE DRM.
If you own a Kindle, ANY KIND OF KINDLE, so far as I know, for ALL of the above listed publishers and authors (as well as 98 percent of the current mainstream books) you are only able to buy from ONE SOURCE WITHOUT REMOVING DRM - and that source is AMAZON.
Please! Stop with this "Kindle is really just as good" stuff, you're killing me!
EDIT: Before someone points this out, the above situation is mainly true for the U.S. market. Outside the U.S. B&N can be a real pain, because you need both a credit card with a U.S. billing address, and internet proxy software to buy books. This is also true of the Kindle for most areas outside the U.S. (with the exception of Canada, the U.K. and Australia, which have direct Amazon Kindle Store access, except that you have to accept a much more limited selection of books and higher prices).