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Originally Posted by Paul58
It would seem to me that the booksellers are the ones that are hurting themselves... If a Kindle can only read aan ebook from Amazon and the Sony can only read an ebook from Sony, and a Sony can read an ebook from B&N or Amazon, etc, etc, they are only losing sales! If I could shop any ebook retailer and read any ebook any any reader, I would be purchasing from many booksellers. B&N seems to habe one of the largest selections of ebooks currently available, so it sure doesn't make sense for them to limit their consumer base to those folks wit a B&N Nook! If I were B&N, I would want all the ereader owners (including Kindle and Sony) to purchase from my store! Then again, maybe I'm mission the whole point of this post...
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The point of the post is that we had a nice system in place. We had an emerging standard with a single DRM. All devices that had ADE on it were able to display ePub. You could buy ePub from any shop that sold it. Now we have B&N selling ePub without telling us they are selling ePub and without telling us the ePub they aren't telling us about have a different DRM. If you download a sample and find it's ePub, there is no information in that book's listing to say the DRM is different. So you buy it and the ePub you just bought may do you no good unless you have a nook.
Also, if you have a reader now that has ADE and you then buy a nook for a gift for say your spouse, you cannot use any of the eBooks your spouse buys for the nook. Interoperability has been taken away. The ability to share your spouse's eBooks has just been taken away from you.