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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
Things BN did wrong
3) SD Card: Made some people happy because they could carry more books. Downside, most of those people probably didn't buy many books from BN so BN didn't make much money off of them
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I don't think that was a mistake, it was a selling point which brought high volume readers to B&N who would not have bought anything from them because of the B&N DRM. I may be biased because I am one of those people who won't buy the new glowlight because it's missing the SD card. For something that costs maybe $5 dollars per glowlight, my next ereader will probably be a Kobo, and I'll probably take my future ebook business with me.
I think on the ereader side, the B&N DRM was ultimately a mistake because only a few ereaders not affiliated with a ebook retailer ever supported it. There was no way for B&N to sell ebooks to people with Sony or Kobo ereaders. but Sony and Kobo could sell ebooks to B&N ereader owners.
On the tablet side, I think the biggest mistake was not supporting Google Play (at least on the original tablets). They never had enough applications available to be a successful marketplace when they should have used the tablets to support value added media marketplaces, like ebook, music and video downloads.