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Originally Posted by JSWolf
So, if you go to B&N and get a sample and see that it's ePub, you might think, great B&N are supporting ePub and buy the book only to find out it's useless to you because the reader you own doesn't support this DRM.
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Someone who's smart enough to figure out that a sample is in epub is probably also smart enough to double-check that their device is supported before they buy the full book. And aren't the samples wrapped in the same DRM anyway?
Sorry, I just don't see the issue. Yeah, it might be annoying to people who own older devices that they won't have access to the B&N catalog while nook owners can pick and choose from a variety of stores - but they didn't have access to the B&N catalog before, so what are they really out? I really don't buy the scenario that this is going to lead to mass confusion.
Going forward, B&N switching to epub will be a good thing - the more sellers who standardize on epub, the better.