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Originally Posted by fjtorres
At which point the "other guys" will have a chance to sell, via PC, to Nook customers already trained to wirelessly go straight to B&N's store. Seems like a stacked deck to me.
Plus, let's not forget B&N's deal with Pandigital to hook up *their* reader to B&N's ebook store. If they make other deals like that with other hardware vendors they'll have a huge visibility advantage.
Everybody thinks Nook is gunning for Amazon's business, and they are to an extent, but to a greater extent they are gunning for everybody else's business first. We may not get to a two-player race, but its likely we'll see a three-point-something player race with all the other ADE licensees adding up less than one full-fledged player.
Not a fun place to be if you're one of the "others".
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I guess I fall into the "anyone but ADE" camp. I consider ADE to be a virus, and my goal is to never inflict such a virus on any computer or device I use.
So, if I use a Nook (or, in theory, B&N desktop software) to buy a book from B&N, AND I correctly download it such that it is in the B&N epub format, can I read it on both Nook and PC without installing ADE? And if so, that means I can also remove the drm and send it in epub format to any other device I want?
I'm not sure I like the ergonomics of the Nook, but with Fictionwise dying, I'd prefer to have some other non-ADE store to buy from.