Thread: The Nook UK store is closing down
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Old 03-04-2016, 01:33 AM   #35
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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8 View Post
I'm "never" in this forum. Had one little ole news item to post. Happened to see the title of this thread. Sorry, but I have only scanned all of the posts. I may have missed something that addresses my question and prediction below.

First, how does one backup Nook books? I'm not tech savvy. I've been under the impression that backing up Nook books now ain't possible, for all practical purposes at least. I'm not asking that someone go into that on this thread. If someone could just direct me to a thread that might have the answer to that question, that would be great.

I was buying (also getting free) lots of books from B&N. When they changed things so that we couldn't download our books anymore, I basically quit buying from them. I'm sure that they had their reasons for making the move, but I cannot help but believe that it was, or will be, counterproductive for them. If nothing else, they lost a tremendous amount of goodwill.

Folks, I think that I see the writing on the wall. I'm assuming that by "Nook UK store closing?" that that means that they will or might quit selling Nook books to people in the UK. Be that as it may, I think that this is another step by B&N that portends the ultimate demise of the company in the U.S. I'm feeling a real sense of urgency of backing up my books and getting them out of their hands.
What you can do is use the Nook desktop applications, download them in there and then the DRM versions will be stored somewhere on your computer, I "presume" that DRM stripping software can then strip that off

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Originally Posted by FizzyWater View Post
I imagine it's different from each company, but I know at one time, one of the company's I bought books from transferred their accounts to the now defunct Borders....and Borders set me up without asking me about it, including all the personal information that had been held on the other site.
It's probably a bit different over here, in theory the data protection act should prevent any customer data being handed over without the customers permission.
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