Barnes & Noble, Inc., a Fortune 1000 company, is the bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States and a retailer of content, digital media, and educational products. Unfortunately, Barnes & Noble no longer support updates to NOOK for PC or NOOK for Mac, which makes it even hard for users to back up their purchased NOOK books. Since many of you complain that you fail to get rid of NOOK DRM, so here we are going to show you how to remove NOOK DRM with 100% success.
Notice: now you can only get rid of NOOK DRM on Windows 8/10 with the help of downloading NOOK books via NOOK App.
Step 1Download Nook books via Nook App.
Install Nook App from Microsoft store to your computer and sign in to your Nook account. Then you will be able to download Nook books.
Step 2Install Epubor Ultimate to your computer
Tips: Since Nook App is only available for Windows 8/10, you can only use Epubor Ultimate for Windows to remove Nook DRM.
Step 3Enter your Nook account and password to obtain the Nook decryption key
Launch Epubor Ultimate, go to Settings >> Nook >> enter your nook account and password in the windows >> OK.
Step 4Remove Nook DRM
Close the settings page, find your downloaded nook files under the Nook tab in the left panel, then drag and drop them to the right main window to remove Nook DRM. Later, you can find the drm free Nook books by clicking Decrypted or the book folder icon on the lower left corner of the software.
Tips
1. You can only decrypt Nook files from your own Nook library. And Nook PDFs and Nook comic books are not supported.
2. If you fail to remove Nook DRM from your Nook files after entering the Nook account info, please try to delete your Nook books first, then log out the nook app, next login and redownload your nook books. Lastly, try to remove Nook DRM again.
As long as you remove DRM from Nook books, you will be able to back them up to your computer and share them with anyone freely.
Update:
As of 11/29/2023, the Nook Windows app is no longer available for book downloads. Hence, use Epubor Nook Converter to decrypt Nook books if you are not able to download Nook books via the Nook Windows app. Here's the video tutorial:
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It is still possible to obtain the pre-app Nook software via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
It still works for accessing Nook ePubs, and autiomatically downloads them.
Unfortunately, ePubor's commenting system considers a link to the Wayback Machine to be spam, so I cannot post the link here.
The last backup I found was from February 11, 2012, so searching the Wayback Machine using the Barnes & Noble/Nook URL, and going to that date, and searching for the page with links to the Nook software should do the job.
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I will never buy anything from B&N ever again.