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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
I know, perhaps I worded my sentence poorly.
I think BN is wishing that they had not gone with EPub and used a different format in order to lock people in. By going with EPub, BN set themselves up so that people could buy the Nook and then buy books from other sites and read them on the Nook.
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I wonder if part of BN's rationale for choosing EPub in the first place was that format's wider use in libraries. Anecdotally, I've heard the Nook's intercompatibility with libraries used as a selling point. When the Nook first came out, Kindle owners couldn't borrow e-books from libraries, at least to my knowledge.