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Originally Posted by Josieb1
Only outside the US. They think they can take on Amazon and stay in business by being US inclusive. Complete waste of a company.
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BN in the US is like WHSmith or Waterstones in the UK. It's "the" store that most people are going to think of when they have to visit a bookstore in-person to buy paperbooks or other related items. WH Smith and Waterstones have had their own challenges selling books within the UK. I can't imagine they would have done much better trying to sell to the US market than BN did overseas. It's not surprising that BN is abandoning this strategy. It didn't seem that they ever really gave it a serious go anyway.
Apparently BN also announced the closing of their App Store in the US today too. I haven't received that email yet. They've had the Google Play store on their newer devices so not much impact to me.
I'm hoping the news of all these events means they are making strategic decisions to focus on their core businesses in the future and that it's not to late to keep the ship from sinking.