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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
It's a shame the way B&N bungled Nook. In the early days they were running neck and neck with Kindle. I remembered being wowed when the Nook ST with Glowlight first rolled out.
When I bought one, Barnes and Noble pushed the more open nature of the Nook. That it read epubs and you could buy those from stores other than B&N, that the Nook had expandable memory. They were even known for having very easy to crack DRM, so your Nook books didn't feel like a lock-in.
I think B&N wasn't ready for the Nook's success. And then they made an unannounced switch the DRM (which pissed off the hard core fans) and released the Nook Glowlight with only 512MB for sideloading. It was like they were a different company.
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Yep, they had all the advantages for ebooks over Amazon, but unlike Amazon, they never really got two idea. First content is king. They went the Apple route of just mainline books without investing heavily in getting everybody and their brother to put ebooks on their platform like Amazon did. Second, their big advantage was their B&M stores, but they never really used that advantage. Sure they had a booth to sell nooks, but they never did any sort of tie in between the ebooks and the stores to leverage that advantage.