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Originally Posted by stangri
Since they came very late to the game, I don't see them winning unless they strip DRM off their ebooks and start offering *everything* in the epub or better yet, in both epub and mobi.
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I don't think that's going to be necessary. As soon as a couple more devices update to the new RMSDK, a no-brainer for device makers without their own store affiliation, B&N will have a huge marketing advantage. They'll be offering DRMed e-books (major publishers and new realeases) that will work on dedicated devices from a variety of suppliers.
While that won't really mean much to the tech-savvy crowd that already does DRM-removal and format-shifting, it will mean a lot to the waves of new users that will just be joining the ranks of customers over the next year or so.