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B&N reported their digital content sales are 27% down, which they attribute entirely to tablets. That makes me wonder how the new Nook Glowlight did. They seem to mostly ignore it. Did the new Glowlight sell as well as expected? Is it driving as many ebook sales as the previous gen?
Also, I wonder if B&N's digital content sales on Nook tablets were affected by adding Google Play.
I am not sure if I believe B&N's claims they haven't decided how they're going to do the tablets. If they plan to have a tablet out in 2014, they will probably want to get it out by October for the Christmas season. Even if they don't make the tablet themselves, they still need to prepare marketing and merchandising efforts, which doesn't happen overnight. I suppose they can just have the Nook App preloaded on the tablets and keep the rest stock Android, so that might simplify matters as far as programming goes.
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