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Old 10-04-2011, 06:00 PM   #684
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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph View Post
I thought the new ADE 1.8 made it possible to read B&N books on Sony?
That is if Sony updated the version they're using. Last I knew, they were using a pre-nook version.

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Originally Posted by tomsem View Post
Barnes & Noble is not a very good example of DRM 'lock-in'.

Among currently shipping ereaders that support Adobe DRM, Sony's are virtually the only ones which are not able to read B&N ebooks. I think that's mostly because they've had relatively puny CPUs in the past, and the more recent Adobe RMSDKs (supporting B&N DRM) need a little more power, and they were unwilling to compromise on performance (at least that is the charitable explanation). Let's hope the T1 has updated the SDK to something newer so that Sony customers are no longer 'locked out' of the B&N store, which as you note, is one of the larger ones.
Besides Nook branded readers, what else supports B&N DRM? As far as I know, Kobo also isn't using a new enough version to support nook books.

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