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Personally, as a reader outside the US still with a working Nook Glow I don't think it's at all possible to be "a bit unfair to B&N".
If anything happens and my Nook loses its registration details, or I need to do a factory reset, my Nook will no longer be able to be used, even if it's working, as I am no longer able to log into my B&N account. And my books, which came from Fictionwise in the first place, died with Nook, as they didn't transfer anywhere. (NB I do have them but that's not the point). I wouldn't wish their collapse on anyone but I certainly have no good wishes towards that appaling excuse for a company. |
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B&N unsuccessfully tried to pursue a policy that Amazon is about implement, more or less. Wishing B&N into the cornfield would only leave most places with no physical bookstore at all and that would be a colossal loss. As it is, realistically they serve as Amazon's pbook storefront for many Amazonians. It's a difficult situation and I hope they're able to negotiate it, but I have my doubts.
I wish B&N hadn't gone the walled garden route, but I don't think they're the big evil. And yes, I have a Nook library; my first dedicated ereader was the classic Nook. Last edited by issybird; 02-01-2017 at 08:07 AM. |
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I may not have been clear in some things that I said.
When I said that you can't download Nook books from B&N now, I did not mean from B&N to a Nook reader or some other proprietary B&N device or program. I meant that you can't download your ebooks to your computer in order to back them up. And, actually, that is technically not true (it seems that someone else mentioned that in this thread). The best, and most detailed information, that I have seen, about how you can do it (though with difficulty) is here. That is a post on a blog (a very good one, IMHO) maintained by our "own" Koland, who frequently posts here and there on MobileRead. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 02-01-2017 at 04:25 PM. |
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Only if I have a physical Kindle, which I do not. I can only download them to an Android device using the Amazon app or to a PC using the Amazon Kindle for PC application.
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For one thing, one of the purposes that many people had for going into them was to browse in books to see if they might be ones that they'd like to own. The Internet has made that all but unnecessary. You can get previews from Amazon, books.Google.com, various other places (wouldn't it be great if some website would collect links for books to as many preview sites for each book as possible?). Secondly, there are great costs that brick-and-mortar stores have that virtual stores do not. Off the top of my head, there are utilities (electricity, natural gas, etc.), rent or financing of the building, maintenance, the expense of additional employees than virtual stores require . . . . And for us budget-minded consumers, $5 for a cappuccino at the coffee bar is more than we want to pay, when we can make the same thing at home for far less, while we surf the bookstores on the web. It's a business model that is destined to go the way of the dodo bird, except for a few specialized and/or boutique stores. |
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The problem with the warehouse bookstores is they rely on people going to them and they need a *lot* of traffic just to stay open at a time when people are increasingly less inclined to go far for their shopping. So, at a time shoppers' "roaming" is declining (why visit ten stores looking for the right thing when a five minute online search will do?) bookstores are seeing their ability to draw buyers from afar decline and their traffic wither. If you live with a few minutes of a B&M store you can still find some value in it. If you live 20-30 miles away it gets iffy. Further out (which is the majority) it stops makibg sense. Back in the day I set aside a whole saturday several times a year to travel to a specialty SF&F bookstore in the region and dropped a couple hundred bucks on backlist and UK paperbacks you couldn't get anywhere else. Today I can do better in half an hour online shopping for ebooks. Way more convenient and sensible. Less milleage on the car and my back, more reading time. Times change and it pays to adapt. There might be room for a different kind of bookstore that leverages modern logistics and online for the impatient and the traditionalist or the drive-by impulse shoppers, but those are a much smaller customer base so the store needs to be smaller and/or efficient. And that is a tougher row to hoe. Amusingly, Amazon is giving it a try. They might yet show us a way forward but I suspect their stores will end up being more like the Microsoft and Apple stores, more marketing exercises than retailers. Newstands and pharmacies can survive off casual readers looking for the current hot bestseller but bookstores need steady year-round traffic to sell midlist/backlist and that means heavy readers. Who have gone heavily into digital and online. Edit: Even establishment apologists are waking up to the reality of the world Agency created: http://www.idealog.com/blog/agency-p...-strengthened/ In the end it really comes down to the heavy readers, whether you're a B&M store or an online/digital retailer, and with ebooks having turned into a walled garden business like gaming consoles there is little room for anybody but the big boys. And that means the dream of inter-operable epub remains just a dream and without it businesses like Shelfie stand no chance. Last edited by fjtorres; 02-02-2017 at 07:32 AM. |
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Amazon is almost the same. If you have Kindle for PC, eventually you'll be screwed. You can only download if you have a Kindle eInk device that supports KF8.
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I'm surprised that Kindle on Android hasn't been cracked? If you had an old version of the Kindle app wouldn't you be safe?
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That's the kind of thing that I meant by a proprietary B&N device. Sure, B&N will let you download to something--why buy an ebook if you can't read it on something?. I am not in the Nook orb, but I suppose that they are like Amazon and have something like a cloud reader, portable Nook device like Amazon's Kindle in all of its iterations, maybe another reader for the desktop or laptop, etc. They're going to keep those kinds of things around, or their ebook business will quickly end.
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There's an update regarding the Shelfie shutdown:
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