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It's sad. As a consumer I love the B&N retail stores. Always have. But they may go the way of the dinosaur pretty soon. And shooting themselves in the foot with their locked down Nook tablets which otherwise have wonderful hardware didn't help. --Pat |
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01-04-2013, 09:02 AM | #47 |
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01-04-2013, 09:29 AM | #48 | |
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I'd add that B&N also failed to properly leverage their B&M stores. They started out well, offering eCoupons to nook owners and free ereading on site. But they could've done so much more to offer value to consumers who purchased nook devices. B&N earned (well deserved IMO) kudos from the techies when the nook color was released for the inclusion of a microSD card slot, and their light touch on locking the NC down. They received plenty of good will and sales of the nook color (pre-kindle fire) were impressive for a "dedicated" device. In hindsight I wonder whether it (light lockdown) was more of technical incompetence rather than a deliberate technical design decision. I was hoping that they would've released a generation of nook color that offered a B&N UI color ereader mode by default but had the option for selecting "advanced mode" that would enable a standard Android UI. They've gone in the opposite direction. I don't think that it is too late for them. Amazon had doubled-down on the lockdown of the Kindle Fire line, and it is the right decision for them at this time, but B&N could take a contrarian approach to differentiate itself. Although B&N never had the best prices on anything they sold, I always found visiting the store to be a pleasant experience. I would buy from them rather than from somewhere else online to support a local business and for the instant gratification of walking in, finding a gem of an esoteric foreign film on DVD, and returning home to watch it. Unfortunately, there weren't enough who agreed with me and the local B&N closed nearly 2 years ago. |
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Think of it as a "social" lockdown; they don't promote the feature but it is there for anybody who wants it. All you have to do is scan the settings page. As for the contrarian approach, well Kobo is doing that with the Arc. Note that it was only after Amazon launched its appstore and captured a significant share of Android app revenue (their store is open to all comers, phone and tablet) that Google revamped and started actively licensing its store. Amazon's store went from nothing to a threat to Google in mere months, even before the Fire launched. The big difference between the Amazon appstore and the B&N store is the B&N store only serves B&N hardware whereas Amazon's store serves anybody and everybody willing to give them money. That right there puts them way ahead in software developers priorities. As I said above: each product needs justify itself separately rather than relying on other parts of the business, which is how Amazon, Apple, and even Google do. B&N relies too much on the stores to move Nook and on the hardware lockdown too much to move the content. If the content is good enough, it'll move without lockdown, on other people's hardware as well as yours. Last edited by fjtorres; 01-04-2013 at 10:05 AM. |
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Similar article about B&N and the Nook in today's NY Times http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.co...ef=todayspaper
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That suggests yet another problem for B&N: that the format changes and Nook emphasis in the bookstores might be driving B&M pbook buyers elsewhere. |
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Hmm, Shatzkin thinks B&N might have converted too many B&M customers to digital and pushed others away...
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I would buy the nook hd if that was available. Last edited by robertc88; 01-04-2013 at 07:17 PM. |
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01-04-2013, 07:56 PM | #55 | |
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Being involved in what were likely group decisions that didn't go well should not be a firing offense. Besides the questionable morality, no one with a choice will want to work there. Armchair quarterbacking is fine, but I draw the line at proposals to fire the coach, much less his assistants. P.S. I know that B&N management has already fired a lot of blameless people by closing stores. Let's just not egg them on. Last edited by SteveEisenberg; 01-04-2013 at 07:59 PM. |
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Lock model has worked for other companies. They sell books, no hardware. Their problem is bad service, haven't expand ebook business international, prices not competitive. Open the UI won't make them sell more ebooks if their titles are more expensive then Amazon. But I do agree when you say that they their ecosystem is poor. And after several years, no signs of important improvement has been made. If you're locked into one, at least give a strong one to your customer. Last edited by jocampo; 01-04-2013 at 08:36 PM. |
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I'm not sure why anyone would want to keep people on who are directly responsible for a product which failed. And your sports analogy is puzzling too. In baseball, for example, it is common to fire some combination of the GM, manager, and coaches when a team constantly loses. And that's the right move. Not doing so after enough losing only perpetuates the failures. --Pat |
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But at the same time they don't even have the potential to sell those higher priced ebooks if people aren't buying their hardware because every one elses hardware is more open. |
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