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Originally Posted by All4Fun
To summarize what I'm understanding: The Nook in itself as an ebook reader is not the problem and can read non-DRM ePubs. The issue seems to be the new ePub social DRM scheme being introduced by B&N which is similar in functionality to the DRM placed on eReader formats but can be confused with the current ADE ePub scheme used by Sony and others.
Buy the Nook if you want. If you don't like DRM, buy your ebooks from sources that sell DRM-free ebooks or that you can "liberate" the DRM from.
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But if everyone told B&N that they would not buy a nook as long as the ePub sold by B&N has this new DRM, B&N would soon change to the current DRM and be done with this new DRM. Before this new DRM for ePub, all eBooks either had DRM or didn't have DRM. And if they had DRM, we know what DRM it had. .epub meant it had DRM or not. And if it had DRM, we know what DRM it had. B&N is selling ePub with this new DRM and not telling the customers. So you think it's got the original DRM, buy the eBook and find it doesn't work in ADE. It's not going to get better unless B&N put the information on their website along with the book's listing.