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Originally Posted by tzirbel
Barnes and Nobel seems to exhibit self destructive behavior from a business sense which I believe comes from upper management making decisions in a vacuum...
Barnes and Nobel started off with something great and managed to destroy most of what they built. I think to appease publishers who are clinging to a very outdated model and would rather destroy electronic publishing than to change a model that has been so good to them in the past. Barnes and Noble has not found a way to appease both publisher and consumer like Amazon and Kobo have.
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I agree with you there. B&N management wrecked a business they likely never understood.
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I like the fact that Nook choose an open standard. I believe the selling points should be based on other factors like price, customer service, quality of the reader, etc….
Even if nook books where DRM’ed I could purchase non DRM’ed books from other places and they would natively just work without conversion. The Nook hardware, at the beginning, was innovative and just worked.
Nook hardware has not kept up to my needs and the Forma and Clara work very well.
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Like you, I bought into Nook because of the open format they were using. I also thought their hardware was just nicer than the competition.
I think their hardware is still ahead of the competition. The Glowlight Plus was a premium looking device that offered waterproofing in a 6" device for the same price as the Kindle Paperwhite. I still use my Plus regularly and find the design appealing.
The Glowlight 3 has a nicer looking screen than the Clara and page turn buttons. And there weren't hardware issues like Clara's 'lightbleed'.
The problem with Nook is the software side. They gave you an 8GB hard drive, but then decided to partition the bulk of it to only B&N purchased content. And the software is very slow and tends to have trouble dealing with sideloaded books.