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Originally Posted by ApK
And I see horrible hypocrisy in crying about Amazon's 'lock in' while dismissing that B&N proprietary DRM results in exactly the same sort of 'lock in' for those who choose to purchase those books from b&n...that being the only device integrated store, which I suspect the majority of owners use.
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Hypocrisy? B&N's 'lock in':
A) lets you buy popular books from many sources other than B&N, and
B) lets you read your B&N purchased ebooks on e-ink readers other than then Nook line.
You really don't see a difference between a company that prevents other e-readers from being able to read its proprietary-format ebooks, and a company that puts its books in a publicly accessible format that can be read by any e-reader that chooses to implement it?
B&N can't force all other e-reader companies to upgrade their software to read B&N DRM'd books any more than they can force them to support PDF files. But the fact that they can choose to (and that they are starting to) is a HUGE difference, IMO. You may not decide that it affects you and you don't care about Amazon's lock-in, but I don't see how anyone can pretend that the two positions are equivalent.