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I'm a little disappointed with the article mainly because it seems like the author doesn't have a clear understanding of the situation. One thing he mentions is that you can read books purchased in the app store from apps like B&N or Amazon on a different device. He mentions this as a differentiating factor for Kobo.
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The company’s chief executive, Michael Serbinis, said that on the Kobo app, you could buy a book, keep it forever and read it on any other device you choose, excluding Amazon’s.
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However, it is possible to read B&N books purchased in the app store on a Nook or the iRex DR800SG. Then the quote from B&N he follows it up with:
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A Barnes & Noble executive vice president, Jamie Iannone, said its books could be read on other apps too, like Kobo, as long as they used similar technology, but it had not tested that.
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isn't really the same thing. Kobo books can't be imported to the B&N app either. There would have to be an import mechanism, and currently neither Kobo or B&N has an import mechanism to add books from other sources to your library. They probably could be imported to txtr, but that's not what the quote from Kobo is talking about.
So he sounds a bit confused to me.