Nook + Microsoft

[L. A. Starks]

Just curious about the reaction from you fellow CrimeSpace readers about the news that Microsoft and Nook will be linking up to make tablets.

[Benjamin Sobieck]

I suppose this was expected. B&N was making noise like it was going to sell off Nook. Guess it finally came. I just hope they keep supporting first-gen. I still really like mine.

[Keith Dixon]

It won't really have an impact on Brits - I can't even buy an ebook from B&N without a US bank account. Though I can run the software on my PC, if I remember correctly. However, will B&N ever really challenge Amazon and Kindle (Fire)? Do you have to have your book available from both outlets? If I can't get something from one store I'll try to get it from another ...

[Benjamin Sobieck]

As an author, it's most important to be in as many places as possible (or reasonable, since there really are tons). I don't see BN being able to truly compete with Amazon if it can't reach the European market.

[Albert Tucher]

I think Microsoft's support is supposed to help B&N expand the Nook into international markets.

[I. J. Parker]

I take it that B&N isn't getting rid of Nook.  Their only hope is to expand their Internet marketplace and to sell books via Nook.  The stores will no longer be enough.

 

But I'm a firm Amazon supporter myself.

[Christopher Valen]

Microsoft may have just saved Barnes and Noble. Here's a link to the story:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/01/us-barnesnoble-microsoft-...

[Benjamin Sobieck]

Read in the paper today that BN stock jumped roughly 50%.

[Pepper Smith]

Good for them.  They really badly needed agency pricing to stay competitive with Amazon, and now that's being disrupted, this may be exactly what they need to keep going.

I like my Nook.