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Old 11-19-2019, 12:49 PM   #76
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QUOTE]Remember going into a book store and finding CHAIRS to sit on, while sampling a book?
We never had B&N in my area, way back we had Walden Books, a smallish store inside the mall, with no comfort like chairs. We did have Border's at the, at the time, newish strip mall.


The strange thing was...nobody was in line buying anything. The store was also dirty and not being kept up. What we did look at was expensive. The prices they had for toys and games were ridiculous.[/QUOTE]

I remember our mall had a Waldenbooks and a Coles. Neither offered seating.
Borders was my favorite (and probably the last New book store I have been inside. Prices were not discounted (and I never looked at the sideline stuff, so no idea there. Remember, many books had prices printed on the cover (flap), so the profit was derived from what the store paid for the stock.
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Old 11-19-2019, 12:59 PM   #77
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I don't miss the hectic Bay Area. My folks used to come up here with us kids, 50 years ago. Even here, the 3 lane hustle has encroached
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Old 11-19-2019, 01:20 PM   #78
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I remember our mall had a Waldenbooks and a Coles. Neither offered seating.
Borders was my favorite (and probably the last New book store I have been inside. Prices were not discounted (and I never looked at the sideline stuff, so no idea there. Remember, many books had prices printed on the cover (flap), so the profit was derived from what the store paid for the stock.
The quote in your post isn't mine.

I think Walden's had a frequent shopper card they punched when you bought something. I don't remember what the perk was, it was probably a discount on a future purchase once you spent so much. I loved looking through their clearance books.
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Old 11-19-2019, 03:30 PM   #79
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I don't miss the hectic Bay Area. My folks used to come up here with us kids, 50 years ago. Even here, the 3 lane hustle has encroached
I lived mostly in Southern California. For a while, I lived in Gilroy, in Steinbeck country. I do remember driving in San Francisco was intimidating in a way that I never felt in Long Beach or Los Angeles.
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As far as Amazon vs Nook, can't the Nook books be read on "most anything" also. Sure Kindles are more popular, but Nook has its own eink devices, Nook has an app for IOS, I assume there is one for Android and the PC.
They killed the Mac app and haven't updated the PC app in ages.
MS had to take over app maintenance during the Win8 days before B&N returned what remained of their investment and cancel the contract.

So Nook runs on phones and maybe PCs. And they killed (official?) PC downloads.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=321373

Kindle still allows downloads which means even (most?) DRM'ed content can be transcoded to Epub devices and apps. Even Nooks.
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So Nook runs on phones and maybe PCs. And they killed (official?) PC downloads.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=321373
But that's just not true. The Windows 10 Nook app does download books, just like K4PC.

Now, there used to be an easily findable key in the old Nook programs that I guess is more hidden in the Nook app. So stripping DRM from downloaded books might be a challenge. But it's not true that there's no official PC downloads from Nook.
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But that's just not true. The Windows 10 Nook app does download books, just like K4PC.
Nook has a native Windows 10 app?
Not the old Win8 app?
That's an improvement.

Edit: Aww, it's the same old Win8 app.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/no...equirementstab

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Nook has a native Windows 10 app?
Not the old Win8 app?
That's an improvement.

Edit: Aww, it's the same old Win8 app.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/no...equirementstab

Drat.
Either way, it does download epubs. So you can download Nook books.
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IS there a download outside of the MS Store?
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IS there a download outside of the MS Store?
I couldn't say. Like Amazon, I use the B&N program that runs on my PC and lets me download. I haven't continued to see what other options are available for either company.
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