05-09-2013, 10:02 AM | #16 |
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Wow. Microsoft Reader redux?
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05-09-2013, 11:24 AM | #18 |
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05-09-2013, 12:20 PM | #19 |
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05-09-2013, 12:30 PM | #20 |
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Guess who's standing in the wings?
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05-09-2013, 12:45 PM | #21 |
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How very odd. Every other company I'm familiar with names its fiscal years from the calendar year in which they start, not the year in which they end .
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ebook user penetration in the US has been measured at around 25% of the population, in a country with ~320Million inhabitants that means something like 80 million ebook readers. Those 7 million active users means B&N has less than 10% market share. Or about a third of what they've been bragging. 7 million active users would be fabulous for Sweden and good for Canada but it's on the low side for the US. Definitely not worth an extra $1B on top of the $300-pllus million MS has already sunk into Nook. Edit: Kobo has 12million registered users. http://business.financialpost.com/20..._lsa=2ed4-9181 That is globally and Kobo is small in the US but the context is clear; *if* those numbers are true, there is a lot less to Nook than B&N has been pretending. Last edited by fjtorres; 05-09-2013 at 01:17 PM. |
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techcrunch has it wrong. From Barnes & Noble's 2012 Annual Report:
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05-09-2013, 01:20 PM | #26 | |
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Their 2012 3Q report stated that they lost "$190 million versus $83 million the previous year (in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization — EBIDTA)." Source: http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2013...third-quarter/ |
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05-09-2013, 02:05 PM | #27 | |
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I have a B&N account but never purchased anything. Is my account active? A whole family can use the same B&N account. There is no device limit. Active account numbers doesn't give us ebook reader numbers. Same goes for Kobo. Would they call my account active, registered or dormant? BTW, I have several (well, more than several ) accounts at Kobo. One for each country. Many accounts but no Kobo registered. I doubt Kobo sold 12 million devices. |
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05-09-2013, 02:43 PM | #28 |
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I told you so, I told you so, I told you so.
Play Store was implemented simply because 1) they wanted to get rid of units quicker, 2) it would let them close services behind the scenes, 3) wouldn't leave the device dead once everything was pulled. |
05-09-2013, 03:12 PM | #29 |
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I would doubt Amazon sold 12 million eink devices last year.
The money is in the apps, and future growth for the ecosystems will come from apps on multifunction devices, which is what raises flags that there might be less users than devices. The reasonable expectation would be for way more active accounts than devices; yes, some people own more than one device...but so many that it cancels out the app installed base? |
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