Quote:
Originally Posted by fjtorres
It is, indeed, looking more and more like Nook miscalculated badly with their adoption of generic ADEPT DRM alongside their ereader DRM because it puts them in a position where they are selling, at near cost, an ebook reader that doesn't need their ebookstore. This wasn't obvious when B&N faithful were buying up Nooks in droves but when the faithful market tapped out and the bad news started, the installed base was free to feed their Nooks from other commercial book vendors.
Even licensing their DRM to Adobe, which should have resulted in ebook sales to android tablet owners, simply offers an escape hatch to spooked Nook ebook owners who no longer need Nook hardware or apps to access their past purchases. Lack of lock-in makes it easy to give up on Nook and move on without much loss or regret. Good for the customer but bad for the business.
Looking at their declining sales of both hardware and content it seems like a lot of one-time Nook customers are taking their business elsewhere. Given that Kobo hadn't been bragging about big gains in the US, I suspect the spooked Nook-ers are moving to tablets, where hedging their bets is easier.
|
This is me. I started with a nook, switched to a Sony and now read on my Nexus. I rarely buy books from B&N now. The switch was painless and easy. Their online bookstore has a terrible interface. Plus, they usually cost more than other vendors. Honestly, I don't even feel a sense of loyalty anymore. Their physical stores hardly ever have books I want and frankly, don't seem to have many books at all. I still support small bookstores when I can because I like to support small businesses and I don't want bookstores to completely leave the landscape.