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Originally Posted by ATDrake
B&N have many faults, but at least they let you buy and d/l their book files directly via the website without insisting on feeding through an extra app. As long as you're in the US or can successfully pretend to be.
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You don't have to have a working Kindle, though - any registerable serial number will work, so you can buy a broken (but not stolen) Kindle and use it for downloading DRM-free titles and convert them.
At least with Amazon, they have made a VERY public commitment that your titles won't ever disappear, once purchased (and you'll always get the edition purchased, unless a newer edition is uploaded to the same ASIN, the publisher marks it as an update available selection AND you choose to get the update). With B&N, Smash and others, pulling a book from sale means you lose the book forever (something most ebookstores have had a problem with for many years - what Amazon is doing may be what we all expect, but isn't the norm, sadly). Some stores go so far as to only allow downloads for a set number of times or for a short time period (the worst I've seen have been 14 days AND only 1-2 downloads, places I almost never buy a book from, as a result).