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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader
If a Nook is used more to read content NOT bought in Barnes & Noble, it's a doubtful product. They'd be better selling ebooks for ANY app or ereader.
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Which of course points out the flaw in your argument. Nooks should only sell books from B&N. Yet at the same time, you want every mom and pop shop to sell ebooks. What would they be read on? You don't expect every store sell their own device, do you? And as pointed out earlier, sideloading in store would suck.
Most folks on this site are readers, naturally. Primarily readers of ebooks. And most don't go to the book store like they used to. Somehow selling ebooks in a store would go nowhere. The little shops could sell them on their website maybe. But that would still require sideloading to some device or another.
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a) Not everyone has internet, or WiFi, or ability or desire to make online payments, or is an adult. It's a niche market, but significant. They might even have been given an ereader as a present or want to read on the phone at the bus stop, on the tube etc.
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I would guess the number of ebook readers who don't have access to internet is vanishingly small.
In the US, Nooks can access the internet in any B&N store. You can actually open and read any book for an hour in-store. If you had the desire, you could read an entire book, an hour a day. I thought this would be a killer feature on the Nook. If it weren't fumbled by B&N, maybe it would have been. At any rate, it wasn't enough to keep Nook competitive with Kindle.
Sometimes what seems like a great and obvious idea to you doesn't play out in the real world.