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Originally Posted by Jane12
Thank you Barcey and fjtorres! It will be interesting to see if B&N does indeed abandon Adobe and where that will leave Adobe, especially since Kobo already has one foot out the door and Amazon never joined with Adobe in the first place.
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B&N probably doesn't need to upgrade their servers for the new Adobe servers because they probably aren't using them now. I think the main reasons why they used Adobe's toolkit in the first place was to be able to convince people with existing book readers that they would still be able to read their books on a nook and to have the marketing advantage of spring library books. Since support for the passhash was never made mandatory in the mobile toolkit, B&N's competitors never had to support B&N's epubs, and there's less need for B&N to support Adobe DRM because it only allows their customers to get books from other retailers which is a disadvantage Amazon never had.
While I still think it would be foolish for B&N to drop support for Adobe DRM, I also thought it was stupid for them to drop support for external sd cards.