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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I really don't think that not have DRM would move the needle for them. Most customers don't care one way or the other about DRM. The music industry went through that experiment when they allowed Amazon to sell DRM free music a year before they let Apple do the same.
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My point was that by doing so, you could buy e-books from Barnes and Noble whether you owned a Nook or any other reader. That would give Android and iOS reader apps without their own stores an incentive to link to B&N.
Using your example, we can all buy MP3s from Amazon, Apple or Google and play them anywhere. That's good for the customer and good for the sale of music.
It would be nice to see e-books follow that route. In theory, B&N is still a big enough player that they could lead the charge, become the disruptor in the e-book world.