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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
So, books that you need a special app to download, which may or may not have DRM. I won't pay for books (or other content) that won't tell me the terms or what's included before purchase.
Authors who want to reach customers who don't buy DRM can't do it by selling at B&N or Kobo.
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You don't need a special app to download Nook books. You can do it directly from the website (from the Nook Library section). I will agree that they should show DRM status, but that's really a moot point. If you're an author targetting the anti-DRM crowd, you're going to need to publicize that fact elsewhere anyway. So you can get the anti-DRM people to buy from Nook because they know your book doesn't have DRM and they can download it without an app or device, and you can get people who don't care about DRM but are Nook shoppers buying your book because it's on the Nook store.
Similarly Amazon doesn't
require DRM, and I'd be very surprised if Kobo required it as well (I've never bought anything from Kobo, so I can't speak first-hand). Epub <-> Mobi is a pretty trivial conversion, so why limit yourself? Unless the goal is to be able to complain that nobody's buying your book?
