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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
B&N's intent was that their ebooks would be readable on other readers, which is why the B&N DRM is supported by the Adobe RMSDK. Adobe didn't make support mandatory, so it's not B&N's fault that the Kobo or Sony readers can't read B&N ebooks. That's quite different from Amazon's decision to not sell their reader software to any other ereader manufacturer. Some early dedicated readers not associated with any ebook retailer did support the B&N DRM natively (for example, PanDigital).
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Uh, Amazon offered to license their software to other hardware vendors early on.
The only requirement was they had to support whispernet.
Nobody took Bezos up on the offer because, of course!, epub was going to rule.
Then the conspiracy kicked in, Nook moved to near-cost pricing, and Kindle followed and there was no money to be made in Kindle-compatible readers.