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B&N Chairman talks to shareholders, no outlook for Nook Media
Barnes & Noble Chairman Len Riggio grilled by shareholders, answers some questions, evades others:
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Translation: you can't sell if no one is buying. Odd to see the shareholder fixation on dividends: the company is (maybe) six months from Chapter 11 and they want to drain cash from it? Related: B&N reports $87m loss for Q1 2014, NOOK business plunges 20% (image: Mike Kalasnik / Flickr) Last edited by Alexander Turcic; 09-11-2013 at 08:52 AM. Reason: moved to frontpage |
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09-11-2013, 08:40 AM | #2 |
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That sucks. Looks like Nook will be on the backburner for awhile. At least until they come up with a plan. I cant see them having something ready for the holidays. Hopefully they can streamline their paper book business. They need to downsize the store a bit I think. Lower operating costs. Not to say they cant have other merchandise like they do now. Just cut it back a little.
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If you own an HD or HD+ now might be the time to think about getting a spare charger cable. Or two.
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Why?? That would be a waste of money. Most people don't even hold onto their devices for more than a year, two years tops. If they do its for backup. Not to mention the fact that there will be plenty of spare charger cables for the nook tablets on ebay and elsewhere for awhile.
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I have friends in the US and both cables were posted to me from there as I couldn't get a spare cable at all in the UK, nothing on eBay or on the Nook website. My main case came from the US too, my spare from eBay. In a nutshell it's almost impossible to buy anything but the actual device over here. Last edited by Josieb1; 09-11-2013 at 10:20 AM. |
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Surely the Nook HD/+ use a standard microUSB cable for data/charging?
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Nook didn't help by having a picture of the US-only connector on the webpage. In the last couple of hours they have changed it and I can confirm you get a 13 amp plug with it.
http://uk.nook.com/accessories/unive.../9780594515364 I bought two of them when they dropped to £10 but it is still too much to pay when you only want the cable. When the price dropped I did wonder if they were starting a clearout. That would be bad for a lot of people in the future. Cables don't last forever. |
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One thing I can confirm though is the Kindle and Apple iPhone plugs work with the Nook cable. One of my friends just shipped the cable over, it was cheaper excluding the actual plug. |
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Even the cases are drastically reduced, the Lautner case was £18 when I got my Nook HD, now it's £10.
Definitely a fire sale now. |
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I never even thought about getting case from nook. They were expensive and ugly. I got this one off ebay from the USA for just under £9
http://www.ebay.com/itm/300878229344...344%26_rdc%3D1 I did look at TuffLuv but I got one of their stand cases for the nook glowlight and it was crap. The material was so weak everything just leaned over. |
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I never could understand why they went the 30 pin route for the cable. Nooks have always been USB. Granted the Nook Color and Nook Tablet had a different cable to fast charge it (the plug was a little long) but you COULD use a standard USB cable to slow charge it.
Although now that I think of it, the change could have been because the original nook color cable was problematic, not sure if it was a quality issue or design. But they seemed to have that fixed by the time the Nook Tablet came around. At least I never had (or heard) a problem with mine. |
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