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Originally Posted by murraypaul
The 16Gb Nexus 7 is £199, which is a pretty competitive price.
The Kobo Vox is cheaper at £149, The Samsung Tab 2 7.0 8Gb is £169 after rebate, the 16Gb version is £220.
B&N are losing money on the Nook line, and I can't see them being able to compete on price with Google or Samsung, yet they have worse brand recognition than all the other players, so price is all they really can compete on.
If you are interested in eBook reading in the UK, you aren't that likely to want to buy a tablet that can't run the Kindle app, and which is integrated into a brand new bookstore you've never used before.
In the US B&N had major brand recognition as a bookseller, already had brand recognition for the Nook line, and had their own retail outlets to demonstrate and sell the Nook Tablets. In the UK they are starting from scratch, in an already competitive market. At least Amazon haven't brought the Fire to the UK yet, that is one saving grace for B&N.
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I cant agree more, B&N have almost Zero creditability WORLDWIDE outside the USA and Canada.if you asked the average British or European reader who B&N are then they would have to make a guess and probably think there a private law company or other
The ship sailed along time ago for B&N to go international and now there paying the price. Now that there coming to Great Britain with there
cap in hand rattling there begging bowl they wont be getting many £1 coins from us British
We already have plenty of reading devices over here that are better OR cheaper or
cheaper & better than what B&N have to offer
B&N brought a pen knife
to a gun fight when they tried to take on Amazon,Google,SONY , Apple & samsung and others as there all taking a big bite out of the WORLDWIDE ebook reader pie while B&N have been fixated on the U.S. market.