To go "glass half-full" B&N did put pressure on Amazon to up its game, improve its hardware. I still adore my nook Simple Touch, and the nook HD was a nice tablet.
I suspect when/if nook goes completely under, B&N will not want to offend its customers of its brick and mortar stores who also supported nook, so hopefully they will hand off the business and support for books and devices to a responsible party. Also they may surprise us all and put someone in charge who can somehow resurrect the nook business--we can hope.
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