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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
I wonder how many people who buy at B&N don't own a Nook? Those people won't be buying at B&N anymore if it's made difficult for them. I wouldn't think they can afford to lose any customers even if it's not a large number.
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I do own a nook but it's a 1st gen and I deregistered it and sideloaded some kids' books on it for my kids to read, as I have newer and IMO better devices.
I do sometimes read nook books on the apps--on my phone, iPad mini, or laptop--but those aren't my preferred reading devices, so my use of them has been fairly slim since I bought my first kindle.
I got over $130 ebook settlement credits from B&N from the lawsuit. I've spent that down, significantly, and been downloading the books and converting them to mobi to read on my kindle.
I'm going to request a check for the next settlement. Even though I adore the idea of having money specifically dedicated to book purchases, I don't want it spent in B&N this time.
I'll probably continue to use their B&M store since it's the only full-service bookstore within a 20 minute drive. But as for nook, I'm done. And that's a shame. I've wanted to see B&N succeed as a large competitor to Amazon (which is necessary for the good of the overall market), and an innovative one at that--they were first with decent-ish pdf flow, user-to-user ebook lending, a frontlit ereader. But overall I've still had much better experience with Kindle (who were right behind B&N in adopting these innovations, and improving on them)