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Originally Posted by fjtorres
...and who is going to throw big money at a damaged brand hemorrhaging customers and market share?
While the ebook business has doubled in the last two years or so, Nook revenues have dropped 80%, their peak ebook market share of 26% is down to maybe 8%, and the promised revamp of their online storefront, due last spring, is MIA.
And, this last week word has filtered out of missed (supplier) payments to some of their indie authors. Very probably a glitch but a disquieting one. Some of the authors are responding by pulling their titles and going Amazon exclusive, at least temporarily.
So, again, who is going to buy into that track record?
B&N may not want to sell low, but who is going to pay what they think it's worth?
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It's more likely a glitch. They have had problems with their platform since the beginning. They have improved their response/customer support when there is a problem, but I can tell you the last ticket I submitted (for a title that was supposed to go live and didn't) they apparently didn't even SEE the first ticket until AFTER a second ticket was handled a week later. They aren't very organized.
I'm an associate for them as well and they are doing a big sale/push on the e-reader this weekend. I think it's erm. 20 dollars off--edited: 30 dollars instant rebate. With a bunch of free stuff thrown in. It's actually a decent sale. I get their "sale" announcements all the time and most of them are not worth posting. They tend to put things on sale that are not interesting to me AT ALL and I don't think my blog readers will find them interesting. The few I have posted have gotten zero to 3 clicks. Three clicks is like a stray swipe of the mouse.
I used to sell quite well on Nook, second to Amazon. Probably a year or so ago, sales began to drop. They have never recovered. It's not a huge market for me. They don't allow pre-orders and miss on some of the other things that are helpful for indie writers. A lot of us are quite active in promoting titles and retailers...but when B&N runs behind in features, they are much harder to promote and less popular with readers.
Kobo's coupons are pure genius. They have pre-order available for us and seem to be doing everything possible to be competitive with Amazon.