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Originally Posted by conan50
... Too many people are feeling good about Amazon Kindle ebooks and they could just as quickly change their DRM scheme to make it impossible to set their ebooks free even if they are around for years to come.
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This concerns me as well, perhaps because I feel so burned by BN. I'm also wondering how much of BN's changes were publisher-driven -- trying to tighten up the loosest DRM scheme, as it were. And wasn't the "hardened DRM" in ADE 3+ created to appease publishers? Not sure how much Amazon would resist if publishers pressured them to tighten their DRM. After all, doing so would help them keep Kindle users in the fold. Then again, it would mean non-Kindle owners who liberate Kindlebooks would stop buying from them.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I wonder if Kobo or Amazon (or Google, or Apple?) would be willing to take over B&N accounts if they do get out of the ebook business...
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Is there any word on what's happening with the
non-US/non-UK Nook accounts that are being closed next month? If they're being transferred to another bookseller, that might indicate what would happen if (when?) the Nook division shuts down completely.