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Between A Nook And A Hard Place

Leslie Kaufman of NYT looking at the failure of the Nook:

But while tablet sales exploded over the Christmas season, Barnes & Noble was not a beneficiary. Buyers preferred Apple devices by a long mile but then went on to buy Samsung, Amazon and Google products before those of Barnes & Noble, according to market analysis by Forrester Research.

The paragraph just before this one talks about the rave reviews the new Nook received as it went on sale. It’s a solid reminder that sometimes being good just isn’t enough.

E-Book Price War Has Yet to Arrive

The Justice Department suing Apple and the major publishers was supposed to be a huge win for consumers as eBook prices were going to plunge to the levels Amazon wanted. Except that hasn’t happened.

Why? David Streitfeld of The New York Times argues that it may be due to the fact that we’ve now passed the peak of the eReader market and the prices for both those devices and tablets are plunging, making the eBook margin actually matter somewhat to Amazon.