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Originally Posted by avantman42
That's also true of Amazon's DRM. However, if B&N or Amazon went out of business (or decided to stop supporting that particular form of DRM), there would be no way to get a new device or application that would be able to read your books.
According to bgalbrecht earlier in the thread, this has already happened with B&N's Fictionwise/eReader subsidiaries.
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Amazon's DRM ties your book to the hardware ID of the device you download it to. For every new device you want to read the book upon, you need Amazon's DRM server to download a new copy for that specific device.
Unlike B&N ebooks, Amazon ebooks cannot be copied to another device.
B&N has licensed its DRM to Adobe and the DRM is included in the latest Adobe software for ePub devices. Abobe's new version of ADE that will be released soon will have support for B&N's DRM (a limited version that can read B&N books is already available). There are also several third party software ereaders that support the B&N DRM.
Unlike Amazon, B&N has made its DRM available to anyone who buys the Adobe ereader software.