On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:41:52 +0000, scott wrote:

>> Not for the Nook, as I can associate any Nook with my account and
>> access my content.
> 
> Why remove the DRM then?

If I want to read using Calibre, I have to.  Or for convenience, in the 
event that (for example) the credit card expires (which they do).  Since 
the CC# is part of the hash used in the DRM scheme, if I have a lot of 
books that I've purchased (which I do have, actually, though most of them 
are free downloads from the B&N site), when I update the CC information, 
I have to re-download all the books again.

So there's a convenience factor.

>> Making customers have to re-buy material because they lost access would
>> be very poor customer service indeed.
> 
> Obviously they're not doing this on purpose, just that if there is some
> tiny chance that people would rebuy, whereas without DRM they wouldn't,
> then this would get factored in to the finances.

I can't help it if they make bad or faulty assumptions in their pricing 
model.

Jim

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