Hi All, As a follow-on to the posts by Bryan and Mary, I thought I'd mention that the Nook app is also available to users in the UK. AFAIK the UK is the only country apart from the US that supports the Nook right now. Here's an excerpt from today's Wall Street Journal:
• Barnes & Noble Unveils Nook Apps for Android, iPhone, iPad in the U.K. (November 27, 2012) <begin quote> Barnes & Noble Inc. (BKS) said its free Nook applications for Android, the iPad and the iPhone can now be downloaded in the U.K., a move that continues the bookstore chain's push into the region. "Our popular collection of reading apps have been downloaded millions of times in the U.S., and now U.K. customers can enjoy the flexibility to shop our vast digital catalogue and enjoy titles from their Nook Library anywhere they go," President of Nook Media LLC Jamie Iannone said. The free Nook reading applications allow customers in the U.K. to use their mobile devices and tablets to shop the store for over 2.5 million books, magazines, newspapers and comics. And Barnes & Noble's Smart Nook technology allows customers to sync their library on the go, including last page read, bookmarks, notes and highlights across all of their devices. The bookstore chain has been expanding its footprint in the U.K. over the past few months. In August, it named U.K. premium department-store operator John Lewis as the first retailer outside the U.S. to sell the Nook. That same month, it also selected three new U.K. retailers to sell the Nook: Home Retail Group PLC's (HMRTY, HOME.LN) Argos stores, independent bookstore Foyles and academic bookseller Blackwell's. While Barnes & Noble's brick-and-mortar bookstores business has benefited from the liquidation of former rival Borders, the bookstore chain has increasingly looked toward digital services to spark growth. In September it said it would launch Nook Video this fall, allowing customers to download and rent movies and television shows using their mobile devices or TVs. The company plans to spin off the Nook business in a new venture with Microsoft Corp. (MSFT). <end quote> Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20121127-704625.html I think you can buy Nook ebooks without actually buying a Nook eReader, just as the Kobo app lets you buy ebooks from Kobo Books without buying a Kobo eReader. With the Amazon Kindle, I believe you (or somebody else) has to buy an actual Kindle in order to set up an account and buy books, because it's supposed to be automatically routed to your device, and the account gets set up when you buy the device. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong about this, especially as regards sales outside the U.S. I'd like to point out another potentially interesting feature: public libraries in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, and elsewhere support ePub downloads (through the OverDrive application) of borrowed books with DRM to your computer for use with eReader devices like the Nook and Kindle. We know that the ePub versions can be read with Adobe Digital Editions Preview, but if the Nook follows up on the added accessibility of its iOS app with a Mac Desktop version that is accessible, we'd have another way to read commercial eBooks on the Mac. (The current Mac version of the Nook app dates from March 2012, and is not accessible; like the Kindle app nothing gets read where the text of the book appears.) I think that borrowed eBooks can be synced over to the iOS apps of the Kindle and Nook if they are actually synced to the devices. I know this is how it works with the KIndle -- if the downloaded eBook borrowed from a public library gets place on the device, then it can also be accessed from the iOS Kindle app, which is not accessible. I assume it might work this way if you attach a Nook or Kobo eReader to your computer, and transfer the downloaded ePub book to your device. Your Nook or Kobo library might sync the file to your Nook or Kobo iOS account for reading. I'd love to know the answers to this if anyone can experiment and report back. (I'm not about to go out and buy a Nook or Kobo eReader that I can't use just to find out if this might work!) Cheers, Esther <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
