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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Probably.
But Amazon doesn't spend their time fighting ebook piracy any more than they spend it fighting tablet hackers. (That is B&N).  |
Well, in terms of tablet hackers, not exactly. Every Kindle Fire update that they've pushed out so far has broken root for those who rooted their devices.
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And, we all know that even Kindle books that *are* available at other ebookstores get "pirated". So "piracy" of Amazon Publishing books was going to happen anyway. (Its OT: but "piracy" of commercial ebooks is a wee bit different than the pbook ocr-ing "piracy".)
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Like I said, you can't stop piracy, just make a bit of a dent in it. And I'm not sure that the publishers, Amazon, or anyone else in the business would make much distinction between the two types you mention, with or without quotation marks.
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Betcha their spreadsheets have a section for "estimated piracy rate". 
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Very possibly.
But all of the foregoing is missing the point I was trying to make, which is that both parties are being rather pigheaded. Failure of B&N to stock Amazon-published books isn't going to draw me into their stores any more than the failure of Amazon to permit legal sales through the Nook store (or Feedbooks, Google Books, etc.) will get me to buy a format I don't prefer from the Kindle store. It's really just a p*ssing contest between the two, and neither of them is doing the book world, or readers, any favors thereby.