Thread: B&N What Went Wrong & When ?
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Old 06-30-2015, 06:18 PM   #109
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Originally Posted by Rizla View Post
Comparing to USA, US publishers and retailers could have banded together under a common hardware platform to compete against Amazon. Like Tolino in Germany. Wonder why they didn't. Lack of will? Saw B&N failure and figured it was hopeless?
As we've seen, the publishers can't agree to anything unless someone else is driving the cart.

And, even if they could get together to build such a website, it would really, really suck. The publishers can't even get their own websites to not really, really suck, how do you think a committee of them would manage?
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