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I agree. I think that BN is sinking and looking for ways to patch holes. The Nook is probably their best bet at remaining relevent and that is failing.
The way it is partitioned screams, to me, we want to force people to buy from us. The only reason I can think of BN doing that is because people were buying Nooks but not buying books from BN. The wonky partition wsa probably meant to encourage people to buy from BN.
The Nook was the only major e-reader with an SD card. The SD Card slot allowed people to get around the partitioning. THat is the only reason I can think of for them getting rid of the SD card.
One of the Nook's selling point was suppose to be that it was EPub so that people could buy from other stores and read on the Nook. I am thinking that BN is wishing that they had come up with something like Amazon's mobi.
For some reason, none of the other bookstores have made e-book shopping as easy as Amazon has. I have checked out BN, Sony, and Kobo and I don't like any of the interfaces. I don't get why this has been so hard for them to figure out but clearly it is a problem. They are not going to make money on the devices, they have to make money on the books. So why are the bookstores so sucky?
I have long said I will give up my Kindle if there is a better experience to be had but I have yet to find one. That baffles me.
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