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B&N to split its retail and Nook media businesses into 2 separate public companies
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bar...ses-2014-06-25
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Not sure how well the Nook media business will do on its own as a separate publicly traded company. Here's the result from the last 4 years Year ending April 30 2010 NOOK EBITDA: ? Year ending April 30 2011 NOOK EBITDA: (209 million USD) Year ending April 30 2012 NOOK EBITDA: (261 million USD) Year ending April 30 2013 NOOK EBITDA: (475 million USD) Year ending May 3 2014 NOOK EBITDA: (218 million USD) That's a negative EBITDA of $1.163 billion USD, not counting the year ending on April 30 2010. And the NOOK Revenue indicators are on a downward slope. Quote:
Nook device and accessories sales (year ending May 3 2014): $260 million (down 44.8%) Nook digital content sales (year ending May 3 2014): $246 million (down 20.6%) Investors are okay with technology companies with "losses" as long as the revenue growth is there. But I don't know if they want to invest in a NOOK-only stock with these negative trajectory. If Nook is split off successfully, what would be its market value? The best case scenario is a wealthy buyer with relevant ecosystem buy Nook for the "customers base." Apple? Google? Microsoft? Rakuten? Last edited by Top100EbooksRank; 06-25-2014 at 09:21 AM. |
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When you combine this announcement with the previous announcement that Nooks are going to be a Samsung Galaxy Tab from now on, I wonder what exactly this Nook Media company is going to do? Marketing maybe? The Nook App?
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http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/06/...off-nook-unit/
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So its more of the same for one more year.
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They did indicate that there would still be an eInk nook as well, just no more house brand tablets.
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How popular is the Nook App on iOS and Android compare to the Kindle App? Why would a potential iOS/Android user (without any tie to Nook) use the Nook App instead of the Kindle App? Kindle App offers cheaper prices and better selections. It's also a much better brand. It's not a good idea for B&N to depend on the Nook App for revenue. Installs for Nook App on Google Play 5,000,000 - 10,000,000 Installs for Kindle App on Google Play 50,000,000 - 100,000,000 The rise of smartphone / phablets / tablets as e-reading devices on iOS/Android will not be good news for the Nook App. unless of course "the prices will be the same" everywhere. Per Steve Jobs. If the "prices are the same" everywhere, there is no reason to use the Kindle App over the Nook App or the default bookstore on iOS / Android. Last edited by Top100EbooksRank; 06-25-2014 at 10:21 AM. |
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http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com/doc...FYE_ebitda.pdf year ending May 3 2014 Nook Revenue: $506 million Gross Profit: $82 million Selling and Administrative Expenses: $300 million EBITDA: ($218 million) In order to have a positive EBITDA, Nook need to have a bigger gross profit and a much smaller selling and administrative expenses. Can that be achieve? Overall, I think the Nook has been a disaster for B&N. It could cost the company up to $2 billion in losses when it all said and done. I think Nook boards of directors would say with hindsight that they made a mistake by creating the Nook. B&N would be much stronger today without the Nook. |
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If they had spun it off and IPO'ed right after the MS deal they could've cleared a cool billion.
Reminds me of the Tramiel kids making a small fortune at ATARI... out of a big fortune. |
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I think it might be too late for them no matter what they do at this point. I hope differently, for competition is always good, but I don't know what they can do to encourage more readers.
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The three majors competitors in the ebook selling business in 5 years time will be
-Amazon -Apple Nook will continue to lose market share to these companies. It will survived if it's bought out by a major tech company (Microsoft/Google/Rakuten) on the cheap. I don't think it will survive going at it alone. |
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I think google should buy the nook. It will give it a big push in the ebook market.
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I wonder who else would be interested in purchasing Nook Media or at least a controlling share?
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Unless I'm misunderstanding things though, whoever buys Nook Media will also get a lot of college book stores. I'm not sure Google would want all of those stores, but they might be very tempting for another type of company.
Since Nook is contracting out to Samsung for tablets, what of the e-ink reader, though? Will they put out another one? |
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