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Originally Posted by RHWright
This seems rather doom and gloom. There would seem to be little advantage to this unless they were also shuttering B&M stores, as getting entirely out of the e-book market would be tantamount to getting out of the book market.
I can see them getting out of the device market and focusing on the mobile app. I can easily see them shuttering the B&N app store.
Still, future-proofing as much of my content as possible is on my scopes. Back in the Calibre pool for me, as well as brushing up on some of the approaches to deal with B&N's challenges to managing my content.
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The problem is that B&N drm books can only be read on a B&N reader or app. You used to be able to read them using the Mantano app, but since they changed the drm key you can't do that anymore. If I buy at Kobo or any other ADE epub seller I can read on any device or app that uses standard ADE drm. And there are plenty of them.