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What's really hilarious is Amazon is introducing a feature to share accounts. Yes that's right we will be able to link accounts sharing content including Prime benefits on all 2014 Kindle devices. |
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![]() It's no excuse, of course (especially for the stealth implementation); but part of me wonders if B&N's hand wasn't forced by publishers in this regard. And rather than trying to explain to those idiots how easily these new "security" measures could be circumvented (since all present devices still NEED to be able to download the files--hence the reason for only removing the download links, and not the actual files being served), they chose to make the token effort to appease them. They'd need to push firmware updates to all Nooks if they wanted to change the location or download method for those files. Not to say that they couldn't very well be heading down that path eventually, but... man! I just can't imagine anyone thinking this stealth-move made sense. ![]() |
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Well the move is consistent with the brand recognition they started last year.
Both Amazon and Apple are moving to allow family sharing and from what I understand the way they are restricting how large a 'family' would be is by making them share a credit card. Ironically this is what B&N was already doing. This sounds all to similar to the new Adobe DRM, right down to the 'security' reason. I suspect that one or more of the major publishers are cracking the whip on DRM that has known exploits and B&N management isn't smart enough to tell them that their buggy whip is obsolete. |
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I chatted support and said I don't have wi-fi so I no longer can access my books. Not really true as I do have wi-fi and already have them all alfed, but still there have to be people in that situation. Their solution was for me to drive to a B&N store whenever I want to add a book to my nook and use their wi-fi.
Even if they reverse this policy I will never, ever buy an ebook from B&N again since I don't trust them to not remove access to "my" book. Last edited by Marcy; 09-21-2014 at 12:37 PM. |
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I wonder how many people who buy at B&N don't own a Nook? Those people won't be buying at B&N anymore if it's made difficult for them. I wouldn't think they can afford to lose any customers even if it's not a large number. |
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Let's not point the finger at publishers without knowing all the facts. It's wrong to let B&N off the hook and try to justify why they did it. If I had a finger to point at someone other than them it would be Microsoft not the publishers but I truly believe this is a in house decision to try and stop sharing which is just silly and move to a cloud only system. I bet soon you will have to be online to read books through their apps.
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![]() As I said, I've no intention of trying to absolve B&N of any wrong-doing, but we know that some publishers are pushing for stricter DRM and tighter control. It's not much of leap at all to think they might have a bit of a hand in this. But fear not! I've posted my objections to their tactics (as well as my good-byes) on Nook's FB page and Twitter accounts. I wouldn't think to discourage anyone from doing the same. ![]() |
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When Kobo/Rakuten said my book was only available on a Kobo device or Android/iOS app, they meant it. |
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Which version? I'm at 3.8.0 on WinXP which does not have the \AppData\ tree structure of your OS (I presume Win7). But I see a bunch of entries in
\Local Settings\Application Data\Kobo\Kobo Desktop Edition\kepub not updated since June. It seems familiar to what you have found. But [deleted] works with this reality, IIRC. It trawls the SQLlite db and displays (and numbers) found titles. I only ask because Kobo is kind of diligent with forced desktop upgrades but I have a firewall which informs me of potentially unwanted activity from the Kobo app. Today I denied an https connection, and the desktop would not display one of the few true kepubs I bought there (and which I apparently left open in a tab). (Edit: actually, forbidding the https request from akamaitechnologies has locked all my titles...) Last edited by pdurrant; 10-28-2014 at 05:07 AM. |
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