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GreenMonkey · 06-11-2015, 08:08 PM

I gave up on B&N after they started removing the ability to download epubs, I immediately de-DRM books when I buy them. Honestly I hate buying DRM'd content as it is.

Still, what purchases I make I've moved over to Amazon. In a way, I feel like this is HD-DVD all over again. Like HD-DVD, I prefered B&N's lesser DRM, epub being a standard everyone but Amazon can use, but instead, the market splintered further and B&N ate Fictionwise (kepub at Kobo, for example) leaving, practically, not a lot of players using epub left. It's pretty clear Amazon has a huge majority of the market.

I'll be picking up a Kindle Voyage at some point, at least they have physical buttons (if the price on the Voyage ever drops from its ridiculously high pricepoint). Even there they listened to their users, a little bit, unlike B&N.

06-11-2015, 08:08 PM	#37
GreenMonkey DRM hater Posts: 945 Karma: 2066176 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Michigan Device: Nook ST glow, Kindle Voyage	I gave up on B&N after they started removing the ability to download epubs, I immediately de-DRM books when I buy them. Honestly I hate buying DRM'd content as it is. Still, what purchases I make I've moved over to Amazon. In a way, I feel like this is HD-DVD all over again. Like HD-DVD, I prefered B&N's lesser DRM, epub being a standard everyone but Amazon can use, but instead, the market splintered further and B&N ate Fictionwise (kepub at Kobo, for example) leaving, practically, not a lot of players using epub left. It's pretty clear Amazon has a huge majority of the market. I'll be picking up a Kindle Voyage at some point, at least they have physical buttons (if the price on the Voyage ever drops from its ridiculously high pricepoint). Even there they listened to their users, a little bit, unlike B&N. Last edited by GreenMonkey; 06-11-2015 at 08:13 PM.