[Wearever]

From my prospective B&N started the downward spiral back in 2012, when they sold the New Nook Tablet. They sold like hot cakes just before Christmas, but B&N took the ability for them to be side loaded with customer apps. This caused an uproar on the B&N brds. People were returning them in large numbers. Many had been gifts. This was a PR. nightmare for B&N when they closed the Nook Tablet after people bought and started loading their own apps on the Nook Tablet. Soon after Google came out with the Nexus 7. Many of the customers B&N lost, bought a Nexus 7.

B&N could have kept those customers if it wasn't so stubborn. They did add Google Play Store later with the HD. & HD+ but it was too late. They had to slash the price for both.

I had the first Nook e-ink with color covers, I loved it, I thought it was ahead of the competition, I also had a Nook Color and rooted it like many others. When the Nook Tablet came out, I wanted to get one too. But after seeing the boards on B&N, I also just bought a Nexus 7.