Comments on: As Nook revenues plunge, B&N says it’s “calibrating” strategy but “committed” to devices

By: drayton36

drayton36 — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 06:11:10 +0000

What does calibrating mean?

By: Gene E. Moore, SPHR

Gene E. Moore, SPHR — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:47:55 +0000

Aloha!
Think I have the best of two worlds. Originally had one of the first generation Nooks.
Unfortunately not use to having it, ended up leaving it on a plan. Did the next best thing, and downloaded the Nook app for my smart phone.
Got a refurbished Nook tablet for Christmas. And was in heaven able to now read my Nook book’s on a larger screen.
Then I found I could purchase a microSD card from N2A preloaded with Android Jellybean to give myself an Android Tablet without voiding any existing Nook warranties or altering the Nook software in any way.
Even have found a way to get myself a small keyboard to use.
Just my two coconuts worth
Mahalo, Gene
AKA Bro Kini

By: Michael Nielsen

Michael Nielsen — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:29:39 +0000

One assumes this would be a death knell for the utterly incompetent management that has been running B&N for the past few years. Their Digital folks have only a glancing interest in the book business (see William Lynch’s own comments about his reading tastes – or lack thereof) and the crew running their bricks & mortar business is even worse. None of them have a background in book retailing, and the inevitable result has been a mass exodus of customers from their stores — even in the absence of their one-main-competitor, Borders. Walk into any of their stores and just try finding the books! Instead of getting rid of the books out of a paranoia of being “showroomed”, maybe they should try offering some deals to entice their customers to buy from them. Instead they’ve followed the same tack of offering higher-priced, none-core inventory as JC Penney attempted, and with similarly disastrous results. It’s way past time for the board to step in and remove these nitwits before it’s too late for the chain.

By: chakley

chakley — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:32:46 +0000

I’d like to like the nook especially the glow light one but they just are’t smooth when I play with them in store. I’m certainly not gonna spend money in them. BN is in the business of selling books. They shouldn’t be trying to profit off electronics as apple does. They need to almost give basic nooks away for free. Or give you a gift card for an equal amount of books based on how pricey of a nook you get. You want people coming to you for their book reading, and as it is, trying to profit off the nook is a huge barrier to entry. Give me a free ink reader and I’m far more likely to get hooked on getting my books through that platform.

By: Michael C. Simonelli

Michael C. Simonelli — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:53:25 +0000

In my refresh of posts from blogs I follow, this post re B&N sits adjacent to one regarding iTunes University hitting the 1B download mark, and another regarding improvements in networks to move patient records. In addition to looking at the cost side of things, hoping B&N is looking at the opportunity side as well.