But then yesterday a reader me about the Nook for PC and Nook for Mac programs being back on. And it is true.
The Ebook Reader is reporting that the Nook for PC and Mac download links have been removed from the “Nook Mobile Apps” page. I just checked, and yes, they really are gone. The only PC-based Nook app currently available on that page is the Windows 8 version, which won’t help very many people.
Both are in fact back and are available for download. The thing with B&N is you never can guess what they are thinking. I’m not so sure the higher-ups at B&N even have an idea of what they are doing with the Nook brand from one day to the next. You have to wonder if they brought the apps back because of all the negative attention they’ve been getting since removing them.
Or maybe the whole thing was just a big misunderstanding. Maybe the links to the apps accidentally got removed when redesigning the webpage. After all, the links for the downloads continued to work throughout this whole disappearing act if you knew the exact url. But that doesn’t explain the issues that people were having getting ebooks to download using the apps, nor the webpages disappearing. There were even issues getting Nook Study to work.
It’s more likely that the higher-ups at B&N decided to do away with the cost of developing the Nook for PC and Nook for Mac programs and decided to have them nixed, but forgot to consider all the repercussions. Like the fact that a good share of B&N ebooks don’t work with their browser-based application, so people who wanted to access their Nook books from a computer pretty much had no option, except for Windows 8 computers. We’ll probably never know the real story behind all of this, but at least it’s good to have the Nook for PC and Mac apps back. At least for now. Nathan, let me offer a first hand experience with this fiasco. I have a WSJ subscription with Barnes & Noble. And just to let you know I use to use Calibre to get the WSJ via the RSS feed.
The WSJ’s RSS feed is unreliable and so I would miss issues and thus decided to subscribe to WSJ via Barnes & Noble. The Nook for PC would not allow me to download the WSJ issues, but would allow me to read them. Nook Study would allow me to download the WSJ issues but would then “blow up” attempting to open an issue.
Each program had a function the other wanted. I spoke with Barnes and Noble and basically accused them of blocking download access with the Nook for PC program and providing an unusable alternative with Nook Study. Also, the Nook for PC is actually more productive to use for downloading. Nook Study would be a suitable alternative to Nook for PC if it worked the same way.
I’ll have to contact Barnes & Noble and see if I can get some insight as to what’s up with possibly revising their policies. Hi Ed, I can give you the details on how to fix this problem, but it’s more appropriate for an email instead of this web pagetoo detailed but not hard to accomplish and I can send you the replacement style sheet for the.epub. You have to edit the.epub file and it’s not hard to do once you understand it. I normally read the WSJ from B&N on either my Sony PRS-950SC, which just died due to a worn out battery, or on my Onyx i62HD or i62ML e-readers. Do the current issues of the WSJ work on the Nook Reader? If they do then that is unusual since I believe the new style sheet B&N is using has some sort of illegal construct in it.
You can email me and we can continue the help offline. On other update on this article. I’ve actually had a phone call with B&N Customer Support Management on this issue and they’ve told me that as of right now they’ve undone their prior change, but don’t have a specific road map yet.
But from what Ed indicates I’ve been able to give them a problem that they will be able to reproduce themselves and hopefully fix. The B&N WSJ subscription is better than the Sony one because the pictures are produced in color and Sony turns their’s to B&W. I think B&N will finally get their act together. Probably some internal stuff going on with the Microsoft investment, etc.
Jim, Sorry but I got back too late to catch your email address. WSJ does work on the Nook Reader.
I am able to read today’s issue just fine. I bought a Nook HD and I am now using that to read the journal. It is much better than the reader, not that the reader was that bad. With the Nook HD you do get better pictures (in color) and the indexing of the articles is better. They show more words in the summary of each article so that it is easier to get the jist of the articles before selecting which ones you want to read.
I was interested in Nook PC mainly because I wanted to get a feel for what WSJ might look at in different formats. I tried Nook PC and Nook Study again today and still had the same issue. I am now able to read WSJ on my PC though by downloading the.epub file from BN and reading it in Firefox with EPUBReader. It’s kind of clunky getting the.epub file off the BN website but it is doable. As it turned I was able to test the WSJ at the BN store. They loaded the current issue on an HD tablet and let me play with it. They were very helpful.
I hope BN stays in the business. Having actual stores in the neighborhood is not a bad thing.
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Weeeeellll the Nook app was special for me, because it was one of the few ways it was possible to get ahold of the ePub file so I could remove the DRM, change it to a mobi, and read it on my Kindle or in iBooks or wherever I wanted. It was one of the few ways you could get it out of B&N's ecosystem.
Cd dvd label maker software. It used to be easier but they've been closing off options for a while. I didn't realize they'd closed this one off or I wouldn't have spent good money on a Nook book.:( I probably could still get ahold of it if I had an Android and I had access to the file system, but I don't happen to have one so I'm bummed.
Probably about the same. I've never bought any books there. There are some publishers (like McMillian) that are mostly DRM free, but it's the publishers driving it. Kobo has the same array of IOS/Android/Blackberry apps, browser based reader for PCs, and proprietary software on the eink readers. I am really invested in Android.
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I store all my ePubs in Google Play (they allow you to upload for free). I've got an old Nook that doesn't participate, but (until I dropped it and broke it) my main eink was an Icarus Illumina XL that ran Android so I could sync between all my devices (Nexus5X, Teclast X98Plus, PC). I'm currently waiting for Onyx to release the 9' e-Note reader (with no glass layer) that they were showing in Hong Kong last month. I'm not often jealous of Android users, since I switched to iOS, but the ability to grab stuff off the filesystem easily so you can de-DRM your books officially makes me jealous.:) Other than that things are OK in iOS-world.
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Once you've got a de-DRmed ePUB, you can add it to your iBooks on one machine and it's available on all of them, stuff like that. And of course, you can do a similar thing with your de-DRMed books on the Kindle. But de-DRMing them in the first place! De-DRMing your own legally purchased books! That's the rub.
Luckily it's still possible to get them out of the Kindle app on the Mac, so I'm cool with Amazon. Which is good cause I just bought myself a nice new Kindle for my e-Ink needs. You could fairly easily set up an Android VM. That or try to find a place mirroring the latest standalone computer program version and see if it still works, probably easier to find the Windows version and run it in WINE than searching for the Mac specific one I'd think EDIT Might even be possible with the Chrome Android Runtime rather than setting up a full VM. I haven't tried EDIT 2 Definitely possible to install the Nook Android app and sign in/download/read (though it's displaying the progress as page 1 of 0 for some reason) with the version of the runtime I have installed, just need to find the place Chrome extensions (which this technically is) store data to see if they expose the files in any kind of accessible way EDIT 3 They are indeed accessible, but the file names are obfuscated. For example the one I was testing out ended up being located at '/.config/google-chrome/Default/Storage/ext/gdojiommobiiedoeandpiphficmmakck/def/File System/primary/p/4'.
There may be a file that translates the non named names somewhere, I'm not sure, or if you know the approximate size you can use that to narrow down which files it could be which is what I did comparing it to the size of the one on my Android device. Haven't tried actually deDRMing either copy yet though, and the md5s don't match, could be possible they use a different thing to generate the key on those than the old credit card method so I don't know if they're possible to do with this method.