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Well this is the end of me buying books from B&N. I always preferred buying epub, I liked the Nooks better than the Kindles, and so when I bought I preferred to buy in epub that way I wouldn't have any conversion errors in my books.
It's obvious though the direction they are heading. There's no telling how long Nook for PC will allow you to download epubs.
This is the same reason I bailed on Microsoft this gen in video game consoles. Pretty obvious where they were going with DRM (even though they backpeddled).
I'm glad I have a "DRM strip before download" rule for myself, my books are backed up in Calibre with a copy of my library made intermittently to both my OneDrive and an external HDD.
Looks like it's time to start buying Amazon again. I don't like the market power they have here, but Kobo already is pushing towards kepubs, B&N is obviously pushing away from allowing you to download epubs, so that doesn't leave anyone besides Google Books (which I do buy from sometimes).
It's the path of least resistance anyway, I'm normally wallowing in Amazon GCs.
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