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Originally Posted by seacity1
I never changed anything in my account & so far have been able to future proof all of my older books & most of the new ones. I download a free book every few days just to make sure I have not been switched over. I have noticed, however, that all of the B&N "Free Friday" books have the new DRM. I also have sporadic "fails" with some of the free books listed on BookBub. I am wondering if whether or not you get the new DRM might be dependent upon which server the books are located on? Usually I can DL the same free book from Google Books or Amazon & have no issues.
Other then the free books I have not purchased anything new from B&N since I became aware of the change over & have been purchasing most of my books from Google books. I have several devices in addition to Nooks & I do not want to have to rely on the very flaky Nook for PC app to read BN books.
So far, since most of the time I can still future proof my BN books, I have left well enough alone. I am hoping Alf will come up with a solution built in to a future Tools update.
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I suspect that some of the free books that you're downloading don't have DRM at all and the "fails" are actually the only ones with DRM. As far as I can tell, all books with DRM will have the same DRM key (NOOK for Mac reportedly uses a different key than other methods). If you redownload an old book that you know has DRM, I'd bet that it will use the new DRM key and will also fail. There are instructions in the latest tools and at Alf's blog for several ways to retreive your current DRM key.
You're not having problems with books from Amazon and Google because both use DRM methods that have tighter integration with the tools at the moment.