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Originally Posted by Lemurion
What's sad is that the hardware was generally good, and they pretty much forced Amazon's hand with the Nook Color, which ended up leading to the Kindle Fire.
Unfortunately, they never got the eBook part right.
What really makes that hurt is that it would have been so easy for them to get it right. All they would have had to do was stick with Fictionwise, leave it basically the way it was and keep selling eBooks. Then they could have tied the Nook to Fictionwise and it could have worked.
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Sony was another player that had everything in place to succeed and threw it all away.
They had a head start, a decent-for-the-times ebookstore, and solid hardware. More, they had a six month window when Kindle sold out that they had the market pretty much all to themselves and they blew it by wasting a year in the transition to epub from lrf. Which they completed just in time for Nook and the conspiracy to wreck their entire business plan by moving the market to walled gardens.
B&N didn't just shoot themselves in the foot; they shot pretty much everybody around them except Apple and Amazon.