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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Back when they first came out, B&N had the nook front and center in all their stores. I don't know that it made a huge difference for them...
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It worked for me. Seeing the ST with Glowlight in person is what made me buy an ereader.
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...their eBook store was fairly minimal.
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I disagree their ebook store was minimal. I found everything I was looking for at B&N.
Now, in recent years, Amazon has some authors signed exclusively and since B&N has strangled the Nook through incompetence and neglect and Kobo is practically unknown, I have seen some indies and small presses that only seem to list at Amazon. So yeah, now B&N's ebook store doesn't compare.
My memory may be fuzzy or biased, but I seem to remember Kindle and Nook being valid competitors up until the model branded Nook Glowlight. When the Simple Touch with Glowlight came out, they really seemed to have some mojo.
When the follow-up Nook Glowlight came out with no SD card and only 512MB for sideloading was around the same time B&N started playing games with changing their DRM and making books harder to download.
At least that's how I remember it. I may be conflating things. But at any rate, that was when I drifted away from purchasing books at B&N, though I do still like their hardware.