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Originally Posted by HarryT
I sincerely hope that the New York Times didn't really say that?
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Running this sprint was, of all companies, Barnes & Noble, the giant that helped put so many independent booksellers out of business and that now finds itself locked in the fight of its life. What its engineers dreamed up was the Nook, a relative e-reader latecomer that has nonetheless become the great e-hope of Barnes & Noble and, in fact, of many in the book business.
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There is a lot of NY Glass-house Publisher spin in the article, but that is only expected given the source. What is striking is just how downbeat it reads, even *after* all the spin.
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B&N has 27% market share? Great news, right?
Except they quoted that same number last June.
So they are simply growing with the market, not "taking market share from Amazon" right now. It's not bad but not great, either. Add in the STR shortfall and B&N does seem to be in the "fight of its life".
And over at TechCrunch they took notice of this:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/28/kindle-vs-nook-sales/