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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
No, I think it was a post from Library Addict here on MR that brought that terrible B&N policy to peoples attention (nothing from B&N until folks asked them after the fact).
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I may have written in a confusing way. I never meant to say or imply that I was the first one to learn of the problem.
I don't know who first brought up news about the change--it seems like I may have seen it reported on the News or Discussion thread. I'm pretty sure that people discussed it on a thread like the Freebies, Bargains and Resources thread, too. I know that I spewed quite a bit of vitriol about it somewhere in this E-book General forum--maybe more than once or twice.
My memory, which certainly may be faulty, is that I found out the problem more or less simultaneously as Library Addict, or whoever, on this forum. I specifically remember making a rather long post, in this forum, about how a B&N customer service person gave me the runaround when I tried to get a straight answer about why I was no longer able to download the books in my library and whether or not the policy had changed, etc. Or, it might be that Library Addict or someone else mentioned it, and then I did some checking of my Nook library on my own. I just don't remember.
And, frankly, I don't care who brought it up first. It doesn't matter one iota to me. I don't care who gets credit for the discovering the beginning of "that terrible B&N policy." And, again, I never meant to imply that I was the one who did.
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
While it's not officially supported by B&N anymore I've been able to download everything I get there using their old Nook PC and Nook Study programs thankfully. I don't generally shop there (never have), but a few times they've sent me $5 promo credits and I'm not one to turn away free $$$ and I have a ton of Fictionwise books there as well.
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Yeah, I'm familiar with workarounds, tricks, hacks, tips, etc. to download them anyway. I just don't want to take the time to do all of that work right now (I'm still planning "one of these days" to convert all of my video tapes to DVD's. ha). And, I don't have the equipment to do it, I'd have to buy it.
I'm just crossing my fingers that nothing will cause the books to just disappear one of these days. I don't know if B&N could legally let that happen or not. But a bankruptcy would let you get by with a lot of stuff that you otherwise wouldn't be allowed to do. I didn't learn until maybe a year and a half ago that when we "buy" ebooks, we technically don't own them like we would buying a dead-tree book--we only buy a license or some such thing. It's all a crock if you ask me.