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Originally Posted by mastermesh
Oh, almost forgot to mention... MAJOR DISADVANTAGE to barnes and noble app store - you CANNOT even download FREE stuff without having a credit card on file in their system. Amazon at least lets you one click purchase free stuff without having cc in the database, which is nice so you don't accidentally one click something you didn't mean to buy, etc.
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The reason you need a credit card even for free ebooks is because B&N's social DRM encrypts the books using your credit card number and name. The advantage of this is that you can copy B&N ebooks as many times as you want, to as many devices as you want.
Kindle DRM ties every ebook to the hardware ID of a specific device. This means that every device must be tied to your account, to download a version of the ebook that can only be read on that specific device.
To prevent you from accidentally buying an ebook, every Nook ereader gives you the option to password protect shop purchases. Something I believe is still not possible with Kindle.