Comments on: Nook users should probably jump ship soon https://teleread.org/2018/07/15/nook-users-should-probably-jump-ship-soon/ Blog on ebooks, publishing, libraries, tech, and related topics Sat, 21 Jul 2018 13:19:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Francesco https://teleread.org/2018/07/15/nook-users-should-probably-jump-ship-soon/#comment-91640 Sat, 21 Jul 2018 13:19:25 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=166773#comment-91640 When I was stil reading Shatzkin, I read his claim that he had decades of experience in the publishing industry and so did his papy ‘afor him. My question is then, why is he so obsessed with B&N a relatively fly by night organisation in the grand scheme of things ? Publishers made the mistake of relying on a single distribution channel, this is something they could correct by learning from the past and it’s more shotgun distribution methods. Shatzkin Or his dad could remember those days.

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]]> By: Chris Meadows https://teleread.org/2018/07/15/nook-users-should-probably-jump-ship-soon/#comment-91293 Wed, 18 Jul 2018 04:36:25 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=166773#comment-91293 In reply to DaveMich.

Well, if carrying non-book merchandise was working, they wouldn’t be in as much trouble as they are now, would they?

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]]> By: DaveMich https://teleread.org/2018/07/15/nook-users-should-probably-jump-ship-soon/#comment-91259 Mon, 16 Jul 2018 16:06:03 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=166773#comment-91259 ” it should focus on trying to become as good a bookstore as it can, and stop trying to be a low-rent Sharper Image and Toys-R-Us as well.”

How soon we forget the reason they started carrying non-book merchandise in the first place — books weren’t making them enough money. So they should switch back to selling just books? That’s going to make them more money… how?

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]]> By: Michael W. Perry, medical writer https://teleread.org/2018/07/15/nook-users-should-probably-jump-ship-soon/#comment-91256 Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:03:23 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=166773#comment-91256 Support matters. When I worked for Boeing, I was told that it took supplying parts to those who’d bought its planes so seriously that if someone who owned a 1930s-era Boeing plane could still order a part. Boeing would brush the dust of the blueprints and supply it.

And if you have a modern plane, I was told by some who worked in the factories that Boeing had a AOG (aircraft on ground) priority for parts. It was activated when there was an expensive plane owned by a airline was sitting on a runway unable to fly because of a critical part. He said he’d seen Boeing executives walk a part order though a factory, telling machinists, “Stop what you’re doing now. Build this part.”

Amazon seems to take its ebook readers almost that seriously. I still get occasional updates for my ancient Kindle 3, although the upgrade process is a pain. But B&N has sent my newer Nook Color out to pasture. I can no longer get apps for it. B&N didn’t even move that support to Google’s app store. B&N might as well take out ads saying, “Ebooks? Meh, we don’t care.”

That matters, and not just with hardware. Avid readers, the very ones B&N depends on for its survival, care about the continued availability of the ebooks they have purchased. Can they be sure B&N will still be there to supply that ebook they read years before? No one can know.

With Amazon they can know. I’m no fan of Amazon, but they know the book retail business far better than B&N, particularly ebooks.

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]]> By: Olivier https://teleread.org/2018/07/15/nook-users-should-probably-jump-ship-soon/#comment-91202 Sun, 15 Jul 2018 20:59:22 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=166773#comment-91202 The publishing industry is so massively dysfunctional that absolutely nothing will surprise me. I observe the play with complete equanimity: que sera, sera.

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