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Originally Posted by Alpha o
I do have the Nook Wifi. One of the early ones. It still works, and it will read most EPUB. I like it as it has page turn buttons and the HOME on a separate screen below the main screen.
I never bought ebooks from B&N. Never had anything I wanted. I found Gutenberg and loaded up. I also found spam allows in the membership. B&N and one of the direct partners had a no-spam TOS, but a couple of the smaller affiliates were allowed to access info and spam from the TOS that I read. So I deleted membership. Couldn't buy a book from B&N if I wanted to.
As long as that old Nook works, I can use it. B&N can't even find it in their system. I tried to re-register it in my daughter's name and they couldn't do it. Now it is non-proprietary. That's the way I prefer things.
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And there lies Exhibit A:
Nook sells ebooks that can only be read on Nook ereaders (and, maybe apps) but Nook readers can be used with ebooks from competing stores. That is a nice feature if your primary business is selling hardware, a poor decision if you sell the hardware at near cost and expect to make money off ebook sales. (Which, remember, was *their* decision to start with.)
It also makes it easy for customers to take their business elsewhere. Which they have been steadily doing since their sales started tanking. Which led to the ongoing spiral: bad sales news scares customers away, leading to steadily worse sales. And more bad news.