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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I don't think B&N can afford to abandon e-books completely. It's the future and I'm pretty sure they know it. My concern is that they are running their e-book division so badly.
I do think they could afford to abandon the tablet market. I'm not sure what, if anything B&N gets out of it. I supposed if Samsung is running it, it may not be too much of a distraction, except that lackluster sales might be giving the company as a whole a black-eye.
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I agree that B&N can't afford to abandon ebooks but I'm not confident that they'll see it that way. They can't afford to do as badly as they've done but they have.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not predicting anything at all. I'd like to see something happen to rejuvenate B&N; a buyout, new management or something. I think we need them. I think Amazon needs the competition. And they're big enough and important enough that anything could happen.
Barry