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Originally Posted by calibrated
What I think is that B&N, instead of coming up with its own publishing solution for indie authors, is acting like a spoiled child, taking its ball and going home. It looks to me like they're missing an opportunity here.
I also think that most Nook owners (of which I am sort of one, having the Nook app on my iPhone and Kindle Fire [!]) wouldn't give a tinker's d*mn who published something as long as they could get it on their Nook.
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The fact that you even bring up "but I have a Nook app on the Kindle Fire!" makes me think that you do not understand that Amazon Encore is refusing to sell their e-book versions anywhere except the Kindle store. If B&N
helps Amazon Encore, they
hurt Nook store purchasers.
If B&N expends resources to buy up Amazon Encore paper books to place in their b&m stores, thereby making Amazon Encore look like a good prospect for e-publishing indie authors, then B&N is
directly helping to keep e-books off the Nook Store for their readers.
I'm confused as to why this is confusing to you.
I will answer the bolded part of your comment in bold letters:
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY AMAZON ENCORE CANNOT BE GOT ON THE NOOK. BECAUSE OF AMAZON.
Hence the Tinkers Dam being given.
As for your suggestion that B&N should make its OWN publishing arm and do the same thing... *shudder*
That would be reprehensible to me. The last thing we need is author exclusivity wars.