Suddenly removing programs and making it more difficult for people to access Nook books from a computer is a good way to send customers in another direction entirely. Whatever is going on at B&N, they aren’t being very open and transparent about it.

B&N recently removed both of the Nook Study forum boards and placed them in the archives. However, Nook Study may not be supported for much longer either. Here’s the link to Nook Study if you want to download it. Customers are expected to go and track it down themselves, apparently. It’s located in a different section entirely under textbooks. The problem with that is B&N doesn’t even bother to mention Nook Study from the Nook reading apps page. They are telling people to download the Nook Study program instead. About a third of my Nook books are unavailable through Nook for web.Īccording to reports over at B&N’s Nook forum, B&N customer service isn’t giving any reasons for the removal of the Nook for PC and Mac programs. The biggest problem, though, is the fact that a lot of Nook books aren’t available for reading online. Nook for web also doesn’t work on older web browsers. But the problem with that is you can’t save books for offline reading or even make a backup. Perhaps B&N is thinking that everyone who wants to access their Nook books from a computer should use “Nook for web” that works with web browsers, including Internet Explorer 9+, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. That’s a very perplexing move considering how few people use Windows 8. The only program that remains from the download page for accessing Nook books from a computer is the Windows 8 PC app. Yesterday a reader tipped me about some strange goings-on at Barnes and Noble that is leaving people wondering what direction B&N is headed with their reading apps.įor some reason unknown Barnes and Noble has taken down the Nook for PC and Nook for Mac ereading programs from their website.

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