Comments on: Waterstones CEO: Amazon partnership great, except for the “bear traps”

By: SugarNymph

SugarNymph — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:59:12 +0000

I’m in agreeance with Robin. How do we get rid of it? The original Kindle one was much more pleasurable!!!

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 07:07:36 +0000

Strongly against the Waterstones Ad Screensaver on my kindle!

By: minime

minime — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:36:43 +0000

Seems like Waterstone’s are offering a real world browsing options for anyone to then buy from amazon whilst in the store? Perhaps their profits will only now come from stationery and moshi monsters?

By: Paul Carter

Paul Carter — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 09:22:09 +0000

Waterstones are installing W branded cafés in their shops. Also, there are a great many with Costa Coffees still attached.

By: Andrew Rhomberg

Andrew Rhomberg — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:54:56 +0000

One also has to wonder how sustainable this partnerships is. What does Waterstones do when the alliance no longer benefits it. Does it have a Plan B in preparation and is Waterstones just buying time? Maybe they are just trying to focus in printed books and want to dominate whatever remains of printed book sales (10-30% of total market by 2020?)

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:36:11 +0000

I don’t think this works out well for waterstones, as unlike Barns & Noble or Borders when it was around, you don’t have a coffee shop in the store in which people would sit down and read (i.e. no reason to treat waterstones as a destination.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:34:55 +0000

“The books available to read free in-store are dependent on publisher negotiations and that the amount of free reading time is yet to be decided”

So then why partner with the publishing industries public enemy number 1?

I can understand why the nook deal may have fallen through. But what really makes this decision bizarre is the realization that Daunt could have easily partnered with Apple.