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Old 08-04-2011, 09:11 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
Would B&N be worth more as a pure digital play?
As a dot-com without the anchor of the storefront leases?

What value for 25% of the US ebook business with potential to grow worldwide?
Despite claims (and wishes of some) the paper book business is far from dead.

In my town (of 40,000 people), the only Waldenbooks store gone probably 7-8 years ago. B&N has been the only place to buy new books for years now. With Borders gone I'm sure things will improve for them. I'd bet my local B&N does pretty good business due to its lack of competition - there's certainly always a lot of people in there.

As far as seperating the digital and physical arms...bad move. I think the hands-on returns, tech support, and experience with devices is what helps give them some oomph vs the Amazon kindle juggernaut. Even I appreciated the customer service could look at the thing when I took my NC in for its flickery-at-low-brightness display. Of course both other units had the flicker so I kept it (fixed by CM7...thanks homebrew community).
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