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Originally Posted by elmblade43
The bolded sentence is what I want to hone in on, as you see in my devices I own two Kindles AND a Nook. It says you can link to one account of each reading service. Does that mean I can use one of my eight downloads to go to Kindle and one of them to go to Nook? Has anyone tried this?
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Yes. I think there's a post in the other HP thread in the news section where someone has linked to multiple stores. However, it does require the store to
be available in your area, for example B&N linking is restricted to US customers only.
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If it means that then I hate to say it, all the arguments are irrelevant to me. Because Pottermore essentially made it so you can buy the book once and have it on any device. I plan on porting it to Nook, porting it to Kindle, AND downloading the non-DRM watermarked files for the future.
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Linking uses up one of your allowed 8 downloads (or was it 7?) so you can link to amazon + download the epub (to copy to any device you want) and still have 6 more downloads for the future (or 5 depending
Also, regarding backup, I thought the clause was so unusual that I contacted pottermore to get clarification. The response was
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that clause is meant to prevent public distribution of copyrighted materials; as far as you keep your ebooks for yourselves, you are allowed to perform backup operations.
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Whilst I think they need to clarify their T&C and it's not like they'd pursue anyone (or be able to) over making a backup anyway, it does sound like they've just poorly worded it.