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tzirbel · 03-23-2019, 12:22 PM

Barnes and Nobel seems to exhibit self destructive behavior from a business sense which I believe comes from upper management making decisions in a vacuum. I initially started off with nook due to them buying fictionwise which had bought peanut press. I purchased a lot from peanut press and loved the company.
I did a lot of beta testing for mobi-pocket when it first came out and it had a lot of promise but then they were bought out by Amazon.
I like the fact that Nook choose an open standard. I believe the selling points should be based on other factors like price, customer service, quality of the reader, etc….
Even if nook books where DRM’ed I could purchase non DRM’ed books from other places and they would natively just work without conversion. The Nook hardware, at the beginning, was innovative and just worked.
After years of mismanagement of nook I started to worry about my and my wife’s nook collection. Would we have access to it in the future? This was a significant investment of thousands of books. The only way to guaranty that was to have complete control over the content we have paid for.
Thanks to some individuals hard work on Anti-DRM tools and Calibre (wonderful ETL tool) I have come to realize that format of the data is almost irrelevant. Using Calibre I can convert to what ever my needs are.
Since discovering Calibre I since changed to Kobo Hardware. Nook hardware has not kept up to my needs and the Forma and Clara work very well. (I seem not to suffer from all the issues others are having with those devices.) My wife switched to Samsung tablets not sold by B&N. We still in frequently buy from Barnes and Nobel but only due to the ease I can strip off the DRM. But we also buy from a wide variety of stores now.
Barnes and Nobel started off with something great and managed to destroy most of what they built. I think to appease publishers who are clinging to a very outdated model and would rather destroy electronic publishing than to change a model that has been so good to them in the past. Barnes and Noble has not found a way to appease both publisher and consumer like Amazon and Kobo have.

03-23-2019, 12:22 PM	#52
tzirbel Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2018 Device: kobo forma	Barnes and Nobel seems to exhibit self destructive behavior from a business sense which I believe comes from upper management making decisions in a vacuum. I initially started off with nook due to them buying fictionwise which had bought peanut press. I purchased a lot from peanut press and loved the company. I did a lot of beta testing for mobi-pocket when it first came out and it had a lot of promise but then they were bought out by Amazon. I like the fact that Nook choose an open standard. I believe the selling points should be based on other factors like price, customer service, quality of the reader, etc…. Even if nook books where DRM’ed I could purchase non DRM’ed books from other places and they would natively just work without conversion. The Nook hardware, at the beginning, was innovative and just worked. After years of mismanagement of nook I started to worry about my and my wife’s nook collection. Would we have access to it in the future? This was a significant investment of thousands of books. The only way to guaranty that was to have complete control over the content we have paid for. Thanks to some individuals hard work on Anti-DRM tools and Calibre (wonderful ETL tool) I have come to realize that format of the data is almost irrelevant. Using Calibre I can convert to what ever my needs are. Since discovering Calibre I since changed to Kobo Hardware. Nook hardware has not kept up to my needs and the Forma and Clara work very well. (I seem not to suffer from all the issues others are having with those devices.) My wife switched to Samsung tablets not sold by B&N. We still in frequently buy from Barnes and Nobel but only due to the ease I can strip off the DRM. But we also buy from a wide variety of stores now. Barnes and Nobel started off with something great and managed to destroy most of what they built. I think to appease publishers who are clinging to a very outdated model and would rather destroy electronic publishing than to change a model that has been so good to them in the past. Barnes and Noble has not found a way to appease both publisher and consumer like Amazon and Kobo have.