At this point B&N is my fifth choice, when it comes to buying ebooks.
- The author's own site, if s/he has one
- Baen, if they sell it
- Google Play Books, if they carry it
- Amazon, which is a pain in the ass
- B&N, which has been, since they stopped allowing download of epub, just as much of a pain in the ass as Amazon, but usually costs more
It's been a couple of years since I bought from B&N - which means a couple of hundred books since they stopped being my preferred vendor.
But if I can no longer use Nook for PC to download the epub files, they won't be at the bottom of my list, they will have fallen off it entirely.
I will
not buy an ebook if I cannot download the file.
I wonder, sometimes, how much business B&N is losing, because of this, and has lost.
I can't think that people like us represent a large proportion of their customer base, but I have to think we represent a more significant proportion of their sales.
I was buying 100 books/year, until they decided to screw us. Since then, none.