Thread: B&N to close Nook offices
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Old 04-08-2016, 04:23 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
Well, that team got Nook to a billion in revenue within a year of launch.

Granted, it was all in the first six months, but it was hardly their fault their senior management changed their business model in a fit of hubris(?) thinking they could undercut Amazon on pricing or that they panicked and ran in circles changing strategic direction four times in18 months in 2013-14.
Maybe, maybe not. I'm referring to now 2016 and B&N's current technical snafus.

Outsourcing is all the rage now. Everyone is cutting back.
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