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Originally Posted by toddos
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?  |
Toddos is correct -- I actually find it easier to download B&N books (because they can be downloaded directly from the website through any computer) than Amazon books (because you do need an app for that, as far as I know).
And both B&N and Amazon allow the author to not use DRM. In BOTH cases, you don't realize they've done this until after the purchase and Strippin' Time.
So, yeah, B&N doesn't lock you into an app or a DRM scheme. But many indie authors may not realize that.