Thread: Classic The nook is bad for eBooks
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Old 12-22-2009, 03:41 PM   #116
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Originally Posted by netseeker View Post
Bill also wrote in that blog post:

It seems as if kennyc ist right and B&N was something like a "development partner" for the new DRM.

Anyway, i agree with you, that Adobe (or everyone who uses their DRM) should at least use other file extensions than "epub". But again, not the nook is "responsible" for that situation.
I think B&N came up with the idea for this new DRM and then convinced Adobe to go along with it. And if there was no nook, we'd not have this new DRM. At the very least, B&N should not be selling ePub with this new DRM until CS5 and the SDK are both out so other companies can take advantage of it should they choose to.

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I missed that post by sunbird. Thanks for pointing it out. Day by day we are hearing about similiar cases when people bought epubs (the free samples worked fine for them too) and the reading device (eg. our sony prs-505) is not able to render the bought file because of the 400k limitation in the mobile reader sdk. Where is the difference? They bought an ePub which can't be used on their device. Different causes, same problem.
Again: Why is it the nooks fault that B&N offers content which isn't useable on other devices?
B&N is at fault for selling ePub that doesn't work on anyone else's hardware/software because they don't tell you up front this is the case. You find me one listing that says that the ePub B&N is selling has a different DRM and I'll say B&N is not that bad. If I was to have bought an ePub from BooksOnBoard that did not work with my 505, BooksOnBoard would have refunded the money I paid. B&N will not refund the money.

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Btw. a lot of ePubs from other providers than B&N are not useable on the nook at the moment, which is a much more serious issue imho. (see the topic "Loading failures" in Liza's review: http://blog.threepress.org/2009/12/1...nderer-review/)
As for the nook having trouble with some ePub, I am thinking that could be due to rushed firmware to try to get the nook out in time for Christmas. We'll find out what's what when the supposed new firmware will be out sometime in January.

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We are already talking about return policies and the responsibility of content providers for their offered content, which is different from what you wrote in the thread title.
Do you think an ePub that doesn't work on the nook should be allowed to be returned?
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