Thread: How can I read Barns & Noble books on my Sony 700?
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Old 01-19-2010, 02:29 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by colinsky View Post
Barnes and Noble WAS offering epubs but appear to have (temporarily?) switched back completely to pdb due to the problem that certain of their mobile phone readers didn't actually support epub files. People who purchased books and got epub and redownloaded them are now getting pdb files.

http://bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/...pdb/m-p/440125

Nobody knows if you'll be eventually able to redownload the same content in epub or not in the future, or if the format will only apply for new purchases once they switch back over.

Personally, even though I have a Sony I was finding it EXTREMELY useful to download book samples (in Epub format) from Barnes and Noble, which were not DRM'd, in order to preview how the epub would work on my device. Now all the samples are pdb as well, so I'm just waiting it out until they switch back. Keep an eye out for an update to their mobile reader software; I'd expect that to precede any switch back to epub.
I have noticed that if I use a browser to download the books, I get the PDB files almost exclusively, but if I use their desktop reader software, then more often than not I get the EPUB (I tried last week with a bunch of samples of older books). Also I have just bought a book that was released today and the browser download brought in the PDB file, while the B&N reader brought in the EPUB file. So it appears that EPUB has not been dumped completely.
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