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Originally Posted by JSWolf
You don't have to be vendor locked in with a nook. The solution is to not buy DRMed eBooks from B&N.
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You don't HAVE to have vendor lock in with anything.
And even if you don't take measures to avoid it, be those measure shopping off the device and learning to side load as you suggest for the nook, or stripping DRM, I am still not aware of anyone actually suffering from lock in.
Even if we assume for the sake of argument that "most" Kindle users don't have the ability technically avoid lock in, they do it practically, by simply having no reason to leave the Kindle environment.
What will happen to them in the future? There's that unknown future again...I predict it will never be an issue.