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Originally Posted by MerLock
I'm not sure if this is how B&N is doing it, but it dislike buying a book and have it only available on the companies servers. Sony for example, if I purchase a book from their estore, the digital data remains on my computer and I can upload it back to the reader as often as I like.
I just worry that if a company goes out of business, there goes all the stuff I bought from that company if their servers go down to. Having an reader that supports a wide variety of formats doesn't hurt either, since it'll allow me to shop else where.
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Actually the servers are working the same way as Sony's from the looks of it (looking at the current PC software) where you download them but they always are out there floating in the cloud after you purchase the book. So you had multiple copy's around. Also B&N is not to bad right now so I do not think we will see them going away any time soon (plus if they did they would most likely merge with another company thus prolonging the servers time). If they did ever go out of business or shut down the servers you would still have the local copies just like Sony's. As I said earlier B&N, Sony and Amazon all are doing the same around that (just all using different DRM currently though Sony and B&N will be using the same (well kinda) soon)
As for more formats. The nook supports the two most important ePub and PDF. Also you got eReader which supports a huge swath of preexisting ebooks. Sure it lacks mobi but ePub is THE standard so most are guna switch (read everyone but Amazon). So even though it supports a smaller number then some readers I would not be worried. Plus I would point that both Sony and B&N are using Adobes software for DRM of ePubs so that means eventually you should even be able to mix those stores hopefully since it only hurts Amazon more for them to do that.