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Originally Posted by Rizla
I don't think that is true or fair. Many people like the new Nook. Also I believe it does now support ADE. Re: innovation or lack thereof, presumably you have seen the range available from Amazon and Kobo? They are not innovative and the Nook matches up well against them.
The funny thing is, for all its faults, B&N make good hardware. If they go, they will be missed in what has become an increasingly uniform and grey market.
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The Glowlight Plus caught up in terms of the available tech to the Kindle Voyage and Kobo Glo HD. Both of which had been on the market for some time before the Glowlight Plus was released. The previous generation of Glowlight, from 2013, was actually still a downgrade in terms of the available hardware at the time it launched.
People may have liked it. But that does not mean it was a successful device. It certainly did not sell very well for BN, despite a strong holiday sale price.
And yes, it does now support loading ADE books. In a process which is possibly the most convoluted manner possible. You have to borrow the ebook, download the .ascm file, load it into ADE, go to where ADE downloaded the ebook file, and then drag that over to your Glowlight Plus. As part of the initial setup of loading ADE books you'll need to register your Glowlight Plus but you'll have to do this via the account settings on the Nook since ADE will not recognize it.
Compare that to either Kindle or Kobo and you have a rather funky extra step. And Rakuten, who owns Kobo, purchased Overdrive a bit back and has stated they want to implement a portal to Overdrive for their Kobo devices which would be built in to the device.
I would agree that when ereaders were taking off that BN was a solid company in terms of the hardware they released. But that's become less and less true, or perhaps it's that their competition has become better while BN languished in the glow of their early accolades.