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Old 01-16-2012, 05:28 PM   #17
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by SensualPoet View Post
The thing B&N could do would be to prove they can run the bricks and mortar business in an attractive, long-term profitable manner so they can sell off the Nook digital business at a premium and reward the long-suffering B&N shareholders.

Would Sony be interested?
(shrug)

If Sony were a well-run company, they would *have* to be interested; the fit is a natural!

Sony's reader value-proposition is hardware only and they get near-nil ebook revenue.
Nook would not only get them an instant ten-fold(?) NorthAm marketshare boost and economies of scale to compete worldwide on *value*, not brand loyalty, but it would also bring in some folks that seem to understand the content business better than anybody at Sony this side of Columbia pictures, *and* it would give them a walled-garden ecosystem to replace the one they foolishly abandoned just as it was about to pay off.

If Sony wants to get back in the game *fast*, buying Nook is about as good an investment as they could make, provided they focus on the ereader DRM and backburner Adept compatibility as I expect Kobo to do shortly.

(But Sony is not a well run company, is it, what with the tier-2 managers ignoring or making war on the CEO...)

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