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03-18-2014, 10:17 AM | #1 | |
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Nook Press Expands to UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, and Belgium
In a email sent out today to all Nook Press (Barnes and Noble's epublishing system) users they announced expansion to UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, and Belgium:
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03-18-2014, 10:22 AM | #2 |
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This seems a little curious, given that the only non-US market in which the nook is currently sold is, to the best of my knowledge, the UK, and you'd struggle to find anyone here who's actually heard of it.
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03-18-2014, 12:16 PM | #3 |
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Nook is contractually obligated to setup those ebookstores and to stock them with ebooks as part of their deal with Microsoft. With Microsoft taking over development and distribution of the Windows reading app, those stores are effectively Microsoft ebookstores, with Nook serving the role of Bluefire, Txtr, or Overdrive. This gives MS contingency options in case Nook goes away.
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03-18-2014, 05:06 PM | #4 |
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Barnes & Noble was already international, they ship paper books to most places, so maybe they do have millions of customers in those countries already. It was just the Nook and ebooks that they tried to restrict to US/UK customers.
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03-21-2014, 02:21 AM | #5 |
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Very true, I should have been more specific. But still what they are implying (they the already have many ebook customers) is certainly not true, and as they know customers in one format doesn't necessarily equate to the other (although I am sure they are going to try). All things considered I hope that the Nook does turn around. I like the platform, or at least I did with the first edition and the Nook Tablet. Never liked simple touch that much or the newer tablets. But still they are decent hardware (at least in my experience) and very customizable (after a bit of hacking). I understand why they tried to lock down the hardware, but I think they would have done better to make it more open. Also website was great when the Nook first came out, then they took a wrong turn and haven't made a right one since lol.
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