06-25-2013, 10:41 AM | #1 |
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Barnes & Noble Tumbles as the Book is Closed on the Nook
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06-25-2013, 10:50 AM | #2 |
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I sold my nook tablets and bought into the Amazon system. There are too many major players in the tablet world and B&N comes in last place.
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06-25-2013, 10:59 AM | #3 |
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06-25-2013, 11:56 AM | #4 |
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Interesting reading. I note that they still intend to do their e-ink devices in house, but the tablet business is moving to a partnership model.
Doesn't really affect me at all, as Nook is not a player in Canada, but I always enjoy seeing how the wider market is going. |
06-25-2013, 12:44 PM | #5 |
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I wonder who the tablet manufacturer is, and how they're going to manage the transition. I suppose it depends on how quickly the tablets are selling on clearance.
So I guess we can expect a new e-ink reader then? I suppose we should have foreseen this from a lack of e-ink reader fire sales. |
06-25-2013, 12:52 PM | #6 |
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06-25-2013, 01:28 PM | #8 |
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They have small and cheap Win8RT tablets starting to come out.
And the second wave of Pros will be cheaper and longer-lived. Not out of the question. But B&N is likely going to be aiming at deals with the second tier Android vendors. Asus, Acer, Vizio... They used to have one with Pandigital. |
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Pandigital was awful and why anyone would partner is beyond logic.
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06-25-2013, 01:32 PM | #10 |
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06-25-2013, 02:02 PM | #11 |
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Asus wouldn't be a bad idea. I hear they have a sub-$150 7" tablet coming out. That could fill the space of the smaller Nook for a cheaper price.
The part about the retail stores: So revenues are down, but the stores are still profitable, because of higher margin items? Have heard speculation that those are non-book items, so perhaps we'll be seeing more non-book items in stores. |
06-25-2013, 02:03 PM | #12 |
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I really think 8/RT has great potential but it needs a lot of work to make it more consumer friendly. I like having the desktop for doing traditional PC tasks, but I hate needing the desktop to do basic configuration.
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06-25-2013, 02:56 PM | #13 |
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A sad situation, but not surprising. One of the worst run companies. No vision. I get an image of management using Windows Millennium edition and wondering if this internet thing is anything more than a fad.
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06-25-2013, 03:35 PM | #14 |
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Sounds to me like they are spinning off their tablet development to concentrate on e-readers. Am I reading this wrong?
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06-25-2013, 04:03 PM | #15 |
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I shudder when I look at windows 8 on a PC or laptop. It's not something I'd pick up in a tablet either. I am a longer term Apple user and the Nook HD is my first experience of Android, I doubt I'll ever be ready to try a third operating system, so if Nook went down the windows 8 route and abandoned Android then this Nook wil be my only one.
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