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Originally Posted by Blossom
Let's not point the finger at publishers without knowing all the facts. It's wrong to let B&N off the hook and try to justify why they did it. If I had a finger to point at someone other than them it would be Microsoft not the publishers but I truly believe this is a in house decision to try and stop sharing which is just silly and move to a cloud only system. I bet soon you will have to be online to read books through their apps.
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Blossom - Unfortunately, they already do (or did) require you to be online to read books through their apps. It has been quite some time since I used Nook for Android, but I remember at one point you had to be online at least when you opened the book That's one of the reasons I stopped using them. Another reason is being unable to avoid hyphenated words, sometimes even at the end of a page.
I don't know if they still require online access to open a book, but they did for a while. I'm sure they received complaints from people unable to access their books, and perhaps they've removed this requirement by now. But it certainly wouldn't surprise me if they reactivate this "feature".
SteveK