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Originally Posted by Robotech_Master
I learned about this over on Baen's Bar, where someone with eReader for his PalmOS device complained about buying an e-book in good faith and expecting it to be in eReader format, but finding it in eReaderPub instead.
I went to B&N to investigate, and wrote my findings up in TeleRead. There is no hint on B&N's e-book pages or in their FAQ that they've shifted away from plain-vanilla Fictionwise eReader, and a couple of hints that suggest to the uninformed that they haven't.
(The name "eReader" is triply confusing now. Not only is it used by the uninformed to refer to e-book readers in general, but now there's Fictionwise's eReader and Barnes & Noble's eReader, which use different formats. Oy.) |
eReaderPub isn't a format. It's still ePub. Just that it has this new DRm that we don't want and don't need.
eReader from B&N is the same eReader from Fictionwise.
B&N is not doing business in good faith. They say eReader all over the place and yet are selling ePub with this new DRM that nobody wants who is buying the eBook because they are expecting eReader format. No place in the listing does it say it's ePub and if you download the sample and find it is in ePub, it's DRM free (for the sample0 and then if you do go to buy the eBook, you get DRM that makes it useless.