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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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Hindsight is 20-20 but Nook's problems are legion and go back to the very first Nook.
Anybody who's been around here for a while can easily list a dozen decisions that time has proven to be counterproductive.
That said, much like Sony, B&N had all the elements to go toe-to-toe with Amazon; they just didn't use them properly and, in fact, they deprecated the two best assets they owned: FICTIONWISE and ereader DRM.
Just consider how, despite all the mistakes, they made a race of it for a couple of years. If they had played their cards right we would be looking at a very different ebook world.