02-14-2013, 02:17 AM | #1 | |
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B&N expects Nook losses to increase in 2013
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...91D04120130214
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02-14-2013, 09:34 AM | #2 | |
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Hmm, no comments after 100+ reads?
No sense rehashing the same old same olds... Well, here's somebody with a couple *new* and interesting ideas: http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2013/...to-go-nuclear/ Here's a fresh one: Quote:
There's still room for new tactics out there. And yes, they *should* fire everything. (And everybody at the top. ) |
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02-14-2013, 09:59 AM | #3 |
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02-14-2013, 10:17 AM | #4 |
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They should take a tip from George Costanza, and do the opposite. Barnes and Noble should instead of doing what they do, do what Amazon does. Do stuff that works instead of stuff that doesn't. I use a Kindle, but the more competition there is, the more it keeps Amazon honest.
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02-14-2013, 10:28 AM | #5 |
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Bah... I'm so far past caring whether B&N survives or not.
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02-14-2013, 12:23 PM | #6 |
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Yeah, I bought the original Nook and Nook Color because they were good products with limited competition at the time. The Color though has proven to be way too limited as a tablet, I don't like their flavor of Android, and they never really kept it up to date. It was worth what I paid for it, no more. When I shopped for my next tablet I never even checked out the new Nooks, just didn't have any interest in them.
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02-14-2013, 01:54 PM | #7 | |
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02-14-2013, 02:13 PM | #8 | |
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02-14-2013, 02:27 PM | #10 |
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Even then, you have to give it to B&N for having the vision to come out with an inexpensive tablet at the time they did. They caught Amazon with their pants down and it was a long time before Amazon could respond with the Fire. Shame they failed to keep the momentum.
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02-14-2013, 02:30 PM | #11 |
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True, but that was relative to what else was available at the time at that price, which wasn't much. There's a lot of great hardware out there today and most of it comes with a much better ecosystem. The Nook is a niche device. It's not bad, I just think the market is limited. It was a good try, they had to do something. Amazing, really, when you consider they had no experience in selling anything other than books, much less manufacturing in the highly competitive world of electronics.
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02-14-2013, 03:09 PM | #12 | |
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Took'em a whole year to respond. And two weeks of sales to surpass that one year lead. Jeff Bezos *has* to be dealing with Cthulhu or one of the other Elder Gods. |
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02-14-2013, 07:53 PM | #13 |
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I'm quite happy with my Nook HD+. For the money, I think it's a better product than any out there (that's why I bought it of course).
But their marketing absolutely stinks! I get emails occasionally from Amazon with all kinds of great deals like 99 cent apps or books or videos and I've bought several that I use on my rooted Nook. B&N on the other hand, sends me emails EVERYDAY advertising the latest $14.99 ebook or wanting to sell me some toys. I often get emails of coupons from them as well that say "**NOOK devices and NOOK books excluded". Well, that excludes me altogether. The problem's not with the Nooks, it's with their eco-system that they're apparently unwilling to change. |
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02-15-2013, 12:54 AM | #15 | |
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I don't get all kinds of spammed emails, and the shopping via amazon is just so much easier than barnes and noble. Also the website is so much faster. It just seems that B&N gets on the cutting edge of something, and then when others come out with comparable products, they just can't keep up. |
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