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Old 12-30-2010, 02:39 PM   #16
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Nearly 1 million e-books were purchased on Christmas Day alone, the company said, with popular titles including James Patterson's "Cross Fire" and Stieg Larsson's "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
From Bloomberg.com http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-1...es-strong.html
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B&N is not neglecting to release sales figures. Nobody releases them. Why should B&N be any different?
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B&N is not neglecting to release sales figures.
Neglect: to omit, through indifference or carelessness
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B&N is not neglecting to release sales figures. Nobody is doing it. They aren't releasing on purpose. So this thread and that article are well, useless.
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B&N is not neglecting to release sales figures. Nobody is doing it. They aren't releasing on purpose. So this thread and that article are well, useless.
Agreed. I just had to say something since every time Amazon puts out a similarly silly press statement many of the Nook and Sony owners flip out and complain and whinge. I figured I would do their whinging for them. (winks)
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B&N is not neglecting to release sales figures. Nobody is doing it. They aren't releasing on purpose. So this thread and that article are well, useless.
As is the thread (and article) where people are crying "foul" that Amazon isn't releasing their figures.
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B&N is not neglecting to release sales figures. Nobody is doing it. They aren't releasing on purpose. So this thread and that article are well, useless.
Read the definition of 'neglect'. They omitted, or did not include the numbers in their press release.

Anyway...I wonder what percentage of those Nook hardware purchases represent a true loss of a sale to Amazon. I know people who would never purchase a Kindle...just because of it's popularity. They are the same kind of people who don't want to purchase an iAnything.

I wonder what percentage weighed the merits of both devices and went for the Nook line?
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Read the definition of 'neglect'. They omitted, or did not include the numbers in their press release.

Anyway...I wonder what percentage of those Nook hardware purchases represent a true loss of a sale to Amazon. I know people who would never purchase a Kindle...just because of it's popularity. They are the same kind of people who don't want to purchase an iAnything.

I wonder what percentage weighed the merits of both devices and went for the Nook line?
B&N did not omit, through indifference or carelessness. They omitted on purpose. Big difference.
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And that's the really important thing.


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Read the definition of 'neglect'. They omitted, or did not include the numbers in their press release.

Anyway...I wonder what percentage of those Nook hardware purchases represent a true loss of a sale to Amazon. I know people who would never purchase a Kindle...just because of it's popularity. They are the same kind of people who don't want to purchase an iAnything.

I wonder what percentage weighed the merits of both devices and went for the Nook line?
I love my Kindle, but in fairness, there are good reasons someone might choose a Nook Color over a Kindle.

To begin with there's, well, the color. Not that big a deal for me, but if you read a lot of magazines, or comics, or art books, I can see it being a big deal. Then there's that whole tablet thing. I've got to admit: While I'd still have my Kindle 3, if I had more money to spend, I'd be very tempted to pick up a Nook Color just to root the thing and have an Android tablet (at a price much cheaper than an iPad). And the touch and backlight appeal to some people.

I'm devoted to eInk, and I think (from what I've read) the Kindle is the best eInk device out there for my needs, but I don't think the Nook Color is a dog. I think it's definitely more of a competitor to the Kindle than the original Nook was (and is, since they're still selling it).
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I don't think the Nook Color is a dog.
Very few people do.
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And that's the really important thing.


No it's not. Stop making something out of nothing. It just makes you look silly.
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Very few people do.
No, the nook color is not a dog. It's a substandard tablet. All Android tablets are currently substandard. There won't be a decent Android tablet until after Android 3.0 is released.
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