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Originally Posted by geertm
The great thing about B&N's DRM is that after downloading an ebook once, you do not an DRM server anymore. The encryption is completely enclosed within the ebook file. The ebook file is just a password protected file.
Any B&N ebook file can be copied as many times as you want to, to as many devices as you want to, without needing authorizations or server connections.
Anyone who knows the password (credit card number and name the ebook file was download with) will be able to read the ebook.
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Correct. A downside is the need to have a valid credit card on file when you download the ePub, which some people don't like to do.
Unfortunately I don't think B&N did much to promote this benefit (probably they saw it as pointing to the 'emergency exit'), and instead suffered from the myth that the DRM they use was not portable and locked people to B&N apps and devices. It is the apps and devices of certain other vendors that lock people out (if they fail to implement the workflow to authenticate B&N DRM).
Perhaps now that Nook seems to be on decline, these 'holdout' vendors (Sony? Kobo?) will realize they can offer B&N customers a migration path to their platform by implementing the workflow in their RMSDK licensing apps and devices and putting the word out that they have done so.