Barnes & Noble has fired its entire Nook hardware engineering division

[Jessica Lares]

Well, this is some bad news for Nook users:

http://www.businessinsider.com/barne...g-staff-2014-2

Barnes & Noble laid off its Nook hardware engineers, according to a source that tipped Business Insider.

The engineers were let go last Thursday, according to our source. This follows Barnes & Noble dismissing the VP of Hardware, Bill Saperstein in January.

Barnes & Noble confirmed that it laid people off when we asked. A spokesperson told us:

"We’ve been very clear about our focus on rationalizing the NOOK business and positioning it for future success and value creation. As we’ve aligned NOOK’s cost structure with business realities, staffing levels in certain areas of our organization have changed, leading to some job eliminations. We’re not going to comment specifically on those eliminations."

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