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Originally Posted by barryem
They sold ebooks and provided software to read them on Windows computers, or maybe it was even DOS computers, I forget now. They did this for about 3 years, maybe 20 years ago and then they decided to quit.
I got an email notifying me that I had 30 days (I think I remember that correctly) to download my books and then they would no longer be available. I did and not long after I upgraded my computer and I wasn't able to get their software to read their books for my new computer. That was it. It was over.
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Amazon did the same thing way back when before Kindle too (2000-2006).
While I won't go so far as to say it won't ever happen again the user base for Nook is much greater than any eBook user base was way back when so I'd say it's much less likely that Nook would simply end without B&N doing at least something. Maybe it'd be transferring stuff to Kobo like Sony & Borders did. Maybe it would be selling off the Nook accounts to some other store that doesn't even exist yet (for example if Walmart expanded Vudu to include books).