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Originally Posted by pl001
That said, in all reality they were doomed from the start. It would have taken more than a few better decisions to become a true competitor to Amazon. It's easy to sit here and second-guess them, but who else has been able to seriously challenge Amazon? Nobody.
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I think their mistake was trying to copy Amazon. They don't have the content available the way Amazon does, but tried to lock things down more than Amazon did. If B&N had either gotten their content offerings up to snuff or perhaps partnered with providers of other content their stuff wouldn't have felt so locked up. The Play store may have been added too late to make a big difference. With Amazon they've got it set up so that any content you buy from them (books, movies, TV, Music, etc) can be utilized in multiple ways on multiple devices.