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Old 02-23-2014, 06:57 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by charmian View Post
I guess they have ceded the under $100 market in the US entirely to Amazon then. It's uncertain whether there will be a new Glowlight in fall 2014, but I hope they don't give it up because it would leave the US market with a lack of e-ink reader competition (tablet competition is fairly healthy).

BTW, B&N claims that they did not, in fact, fire the engineering staff.
They confirmed they laid ppl off. Then they said they they didn't fire the hardware engineers.

News forum was based off this link, which says:
http://www.businessinsider.com/barne...g-staff-2014-2
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Update: After posting this, Barnes & Noble told us that it did not eliminate its entire hardware department, but it declined to provide specifics.
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