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Either B&N were too late to the party or Amazon got in first to block them, but either way joining up with Waterstones or WHSmith (who already sell Kobo) but have made sense. Instead they went into retail stores with no (or non existent) publicity. |
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Waterstones gets a percentage cut of all the ebooks bought on Kindles they sell. The probably crunched the numbers and figured that percentage (6%, 10%, whatever) times a *big* number was a better deal than the 25% or so they might clear on epubs times a *much* smaller number. (It is my understanding that Amazon has something like an 80% share of the ereader business in the UK. Much bigger than in the US. And since Waterstones *does* sell epubs they know *exactly* how much of a draw epub is to ebook buyers.) It is not unlike the deal Kobo offers bookstores worldwide. A one-time sale generates a trickle of enduring revenue. Sell enough of the gadgets and that trickle adds up to decent cash, without the expense of running an ebookstore of their own. Last edited by fjtorres; 06-22-2013 at 04:33 PM. |
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They left it far too late to expand into Europe. |
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Even then, the word is it was *Microsoft* that funded the UK expansion. Much like the Win8 Nook app, they only did it on somebody else's dime. Left to themselves they probably never would have gone international; their management sees to be strictly small pond types. |
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Not so much that they funded it directly, but they did make it a requirement when putting money in at the time of the original Nook Media deal, so more or less the same thing.
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If B&N doesn't want to expand past their home market, I don't think there's anything wrong with that. They're a strong business in the US, but not internationally and I don't think they've ever tried to be. In some ways, being able to use the MS money to put up TV adds for the Nook in the US would have been a better thing than expanding internationally into markets where they don't have the customer support structure. Then they'd be more than a distant 2nd in the US market and might not be having to take such losses on the tablets to get them out the door.
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The so-called Nook HD "sale" is now in its third week.
Q: when will this "sale" end? A: when they deplete their stock |
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Who's to say they aren't shipping in more stock? We don't know what the sales numbers are.
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I just got an email from B&N, thanking me for choosing a Nook Simple Touch? I haven't owned a nook since the first incarnation, and I sold that a year or so ago. Anybody else get this goofy email?
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Yup- I got one and so did my husband. Like you ,I haven't had one since the first Nook version, and my husband never owned one.
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And those of us that actually do own Nooks don't get the good emails. I hear people say they get coupons for money off Nooks or whatever. All I get is daily emails wanting to sell me the latest $12.99 ebook or puzzles and games.
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