Yes, B&N may lock up the Nook ebooks you buy but they also literally hand you the key so you can extract the ebooks and strip the DRM. You can find the key in one of NookStudy’s log files, and get this: NookStudy stores the key in plain text. (And once you have the key, you can use the usual workaround to bypass B&N’s block on downloading your Nook ebooks.) After you’ve downloaded a Nook ebook, NookStudy will have a copy of the new encryption key. You have to use it to download Nook ebooks. To start, you’ll need to download, install, and activate NookStudy ( get it here). But if you want to protect your ebooks from B&N’s future bungling by removing the DRM, that’s going to require a little additional work. If you have a Nook app, you can still download and read your ebooks (for now). I can’t yet tell you what the new method is (it looks to be random), but I can report that the actual DRM has not changed, just the method for generating the encryption key. Hot on the heels of the news that B&N has cozied up to the vanity press Author Solutions comes a new report that the retailer has changed how it is implementing its DRM. A reader has informed me, and other sources confirm, that Barnes & Noble has changed how it generates its encryption keys.Įver since B&N launched Nook in 2009, the retailer has based the Nook DRM encryption keys on a customer’s credit card number and name. That technical spec had been inherited from (which B&N got when it bought Fictionwise in early 2009) and enabled users to load their ebooks on to any app or ereader which supported a certain type of Adobe DE DRM (Mantano, for example).īut now B&N is using a new method for generating its encryption keys. B&N Changes Nook DRM Key, Further Proving That They Don’t Want Your Business
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