08-20-2012, 08:12 AM | #1 | |
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B&N Nook coming to the UK
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08-20-2012, 08:16 AM | #2 |
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Only two years late!
At least the Microsoft money is paying for something useful... Let's hope there's still room in the UK market for them.. |
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The expansion was a requirement of the Microsoft agreement.
Launching in autumn and they still aren't ready to name retail partners? Nothing about retail bookstore partnerships, so this might just be an announcement that PC World/Currys and big supermarkets will carry the readers. They should have a market advantage with the Nook Glowlight though. Last edited by murraypaul; 08-20-2012 at 09:54 AM. |
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Only the UK? I could never understand B&N, especially since Amazon doesn't have a problem selling all book formats worldwide (with only geo-restrictions on some digital books).
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From the huge long list of warnings at the bottom of the article:
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08-20-2012, 10:53 AM | #7 |
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Hmm, that sounds like UK-Nooks may not use the ereader DRM but rather be pure Adept devices.
Is there some euro law that might block their use of customer data as part of their DRM encryption? |
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Because I read it in the agreement.
The actual geographies that Microsoft require Newco to expand to are redacted, but not the existence of that requirement, and I think it is guaranteed that one of those geographies would have been the UK, and likely that the UK was (one of) the priority geography(ies) specified in subsections a) below, as the largest English-language eBook market after the US and Canada. (Possibly bigger than Canada?) http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/da...191/ex10-2.htm Quote:
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Hmm, just realized: Windows 8 launches in october and Microsoft is bundling the Nook software with Win8 and the tablets. October is actually as late as B&N could launch the UK ebookstore and not mess up Microsoft...
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After reading this, I was hoping they would offer us their tablet. But it looks like we'll only be getting the eink devices.
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They certainly having been rushing to get anything done. I didn't say that they wouldn't have done it without the MS deal, just that they have to do it now that the deal is in place, and may have been pushed by a deadline. |
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Would you want to try rolling the Nook Tablet out in a market where the Nook brand has no value, and the Nexus 7 is already on sale, along with all the different Samsung lines?
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There is a data protection directive (the UK law is the Data Protection Act: DPA). I don't think it would outlaw using credit card details as part of the DRM. Google "information commissioner" for more info on the DPA.
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