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Originally Posted by HarryT
In what way? The Nook will read any ePub book. Buy from Kobo, B&N, Sony, BooksOnBoard, Waterstones - wherever you want - and the Nook will read it.
The Nook has on-board software to buy from the B&N Store, sure, just as the Kobo has software to buy from the Kobo store, and the Sony from the Sony store.
I'm afraid that if you're objecting to readers which have associated bookstores, you're ruling out EVERY mainstream device.
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I guess I'm interested in how they're running their stores, if that makes sense. Making a format proprietary is only one way not allowing full ownership. Putting hooks into the stuff it sells you, common format or otherwise, is another. If their flagship - the thing they want you to use to make your device useful - is doing stuff like that, it does make a statement about how they think of their customers and their rights to ownership.
I know most of them have their own stores. Them having their own stores doesn't bother me. There doesn't appear to be a "mecca of e-books" yet, so of course they would. I would just be significantly more swayed and much happier to spend my money on one that had a store that wasn't trying to pull stuff like that. Honest business gets my money.