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Originally Posted by conan50
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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First, I completely agree that B&N and the Nook has been of major importance to us Kindle users. Without competition we wouldn't have it nearly as good as we have it now. I just wish B&N had done a better job because if Amazon loses them they'll only have Kobo. Kobo is good but Amazon needs more than one competitor.
As for B&N handing over Nook support, I wouldn't bet on it. I suspect they'll be around doing it themselves a while longer but if they decide to call it quits that'll be the second time they've done so. They sold ebooks and provided software to read them on Windows computers, or maybe it was even DOS computers, I forget now. They did this for about 3 years, maybe 20 years ago and then they decided to quit.
I got an email notifying me that I had 30 days (I think I remember that correctly) to download my books and then they would no longer be available. I did and not long after I upgraded my computer and I wasn't able to get their software to read their books for my new computer. That was it. It was over.
I really didn't feel too bad about it at the time. I had just bought a few books from them and I'd already read them and I didn't have plans to read them again any time soon. But a lot of people had a lot of books and never did get to read them all.
This is the exact reason I backup my Kindle books today. I don't expect Amazon to go kaput but I have a lot of their books, far more than I've read, and I know anything can happen. I have a lifetime supply of books and I don't want to risk losing it.
Barry