{"id":32072,"date":"2013-01-04T22:20:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T05:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/04\/barnes-noble-nooks-sales.html"},"modified":"2013-01-04T22:20:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T05:20:16","slug":"barnes-noble-nooks-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/04\/barnes-noble-nooks-sales.html","title":{"rendered":"Barnes &amp; Noble &amp; Nooks &amp; Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>B&amp;N has been in a heck of a spot &#8212; seeing the e-book market explode, and their arch-competitor Amazon take over. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But was turning a huge amount of prime real estate in their stores into Nook sales points a good idea? \u00a0It sold Nooks, but at the cost of hardcopy books that could have been sold. And those Nook buyers aren&#39;t necessarily then coming into B&amp;N&#39;s brick-and-mortar locations to buy paper books.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, people who wanted to buy e-readers &#8230; largely already have. \u00a0Which means now B&amp;N has a bunch of stores with hardcopy books tucked behind Nook displays, neither of which are selling as well.<\/p>\n<p>Ugh.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/www.thepassivevoice.com\/wp-content\/themes\/aesthete\/img\/headers\/book2.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.thepassivevoice.com\/01\/2013\/bn-results-are-disappointing-and-one-wonders-if-prior-success-with-nook-might-deserve-part-of-the-blame\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=twitter'>B&#038;N results are disappointing, and one wonders if prior success with NOOK might deserve part of the blame | The Passive Voice<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFrom veteran publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin: Barnes &#038; Noble announced some holiday sales results this morning and they were universally disappointing. 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Same-store and o&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Yh3CpS5xzSf' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B&amp;N has been in a heck of a spot &#8212; seeing the e-book market explode, and their arch-competitor Amazon take over. \u00a0 But was turning a huge amount of prime real estate in their stores into Nook sales points a good idea? \u00a0It sold Nooks, but at the cost of hardcopy books that could have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/04\/barnes-noble-nooks-sales.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Barnes &amp; Noble &amp; Nooks &amp; Sales&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27654,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/30\/finally-something-to-make-the-amazon-kindle-look-less-like-a-threat.html","url_meta":{"origin":32072,"position":0},"title":"Finally, something to make the Amazon Kindle look less like a threat","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 30-Apr-12 6:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"Microsoft investing in the B&N's Nook, both to settle patent suits against B&N and to have Nook software installed natively on Win8 machines.If there's one company out there that can make Amazon look like a small, beneficent Mom & Pop operation, it's Microsoft. 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