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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
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.
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Well, WH Smiths sold off their ebook store to Kobo and Waterstones went down the, frankly bizarre, route of selling kindles as hardware and epubs as ebooks so it is possible that B&N is going to end up exiting the ebook market completely and just sell paper books.