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Originally Posted by Jane12
I really wanted B&N to succeed. I wanted their brick-and-mortar stores to survive, and if publishers insist on DRM, then B&N's social variety was preferable (IMO) to Amazon and Adobe's.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
What exactly is so bad about Amazon & Adobe DRM? Also, B&N DRM was based on Adobe's system.  |
The problem I have with Adobe DRM (regular Adobe, not B&N-flavored Adobe) is I don't care for Adobe Digital Editions, and I find the whole rigmarole with authorizations and .ascm files bothersome.
Amazon's DRM seems pretty seamless, but you're locked in to Kindles and Kindle apps. Not a problem if you like them, but I don't.
With B&N's DRM, I can read B&N books on Bluefire Reader and Mantano, both of which I find preferable to the Kindle app. At one point I fervently hoped that Sony and Kobo would enable the password option, making it possible to read B&N books on their devices, but those hopes have been dashed.
Now it doesn't matter because B&N isn't doing social DRM anymore. Now they're worse than Amazon and Adobe!