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Originally Posted by NickyWithNook
I just want to continue to have access to the many, many books I've bought from there.
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Then I suggest you download and strip the drm that is the only way to permanently keep your ebooks, or buy them all over again from someone else, or pirate them.
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Originally Posted by charmian
What I'm curious about is what this will do to the US e-ink reader market. This will leave Kindle with a vast market share, unless Kobo starts to get really popular, although that seems unlikely.
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The reading market will be fine. As you pointed out Kindle will probably become bigger, but so will the tablet market and the other epub stores will also increase business since they just use standard epub rather than another locked in version of epub.
I have NO sympathy for B&N, they were late to the plate and then had a locked down version to keep people locked to their store and had higher prices to boot.
They trashed FW, botched the switch over to them, and only just added Google Market to give people more choices and flexibility.
If they were too stupid or stuborn to see which way consumers were going that is their own fault!