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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
That's weird. The vast majority of the books at a Barnes and Noble store (not counting the discount section*) are Big Five books and Amazon and B&N should both have them to this day.
Where I think Amazon pulled ahead is in indies and as Nook lost relevancy small presses stopped paying attention to them.
*most of the books in the discount section, not counting the remainders, are books published by B&N themselves. Some are available as Nook books, but many are not. I think that's because they tend to be reprints and paper rights are easier to secure than ebook rights.
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It was fairly early on with the nook. It may sound weird, but that was my experience. It could be that they pulled even a bit later, when I had already given up on them. The Nook came out in November of 2009 about 4 months before the iPad and Apple's book store. That was some 2 years after the first Kindle (November 2007) and 3 years after Sony's PRS-500( Sept 2006). It's not exactly shocking that it took B&N time to build inventory in their ebook store.