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Originally Posted by SleepyBob
Hypocrisy? B&N's 'lock in':
A) lets you buy popular books from many sources other than B&N, and
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This is not the issue I'm talking about. There are plenty of other threads addressing this point, but a brief tangent: the upshot is that it's a non-issue. There are plenty of places to get books for Kindle, too and if you mean the 4 other big general DRM bookstores, there is very little reason to shop between them (short of the occasional Kobo coupon) and virtually no one has reported selection at Amazon OR the epub store causing them an issue either way.
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B) lets you read your B&N purchased ebooks on e-ink readers other than then Nook line.
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If this is true, great. I wouldn't mind seeing a link to details, I admittedly have not kept up with nook news.
It was my understanding that books bought under B&N's DRM, which is not the ADE DRM which they also use, would be just as 'locked in' to nook stuff as similar Amazon purchases would be lock into Kindle stuff.
In either case, the practical up shot is: No one cares. Another non issue.
Reports here indicate that virtually no one seems to feel locked in. Whether it's because they only have a Kindle and so have no need to read on another eink device, or because they strip DRM so they can read on anything they want, either way, if it doesn't affect people, it doesn't affect them.
And for the record I have no objection to truthfully pointing out the limitations, especially when giving buying advice. I object to spreading unwarranted FUD about the Kindle by acting like these limitations are making millions of users unhappy, while dismissing the nooks limitations as non-issues.