I’m Confused About The Barnes and Noble Nook News But Not Enough To Investigate

I was a little confused today to hear that Barnes and Noble was spinning off their Nook unit into a separate company. This primarily confused me because I thought they had done that already. Either way, it turns out that I’m not interested enough to sort it out.

Maybe it was just that someone else made the actual hardware devices and now they are fully going over to the e-book side of the operation being someone else as well. I don’t know. What’s more, I just can’t seem to care.

I never even really thought about getting a Nook. I got a Kindle, but only the cheapest I could actually get. Mine shows ads when I’m not doing something else. It doesn’t bother me, because I only use it to read public domain books, electronic review copies people sent me, and a rare Kindle only book. Everything else, I buy in print. As such, Nook was right out. I never even thought about it.

Apparently no one else did either.

Still, this must be news to somebody. It just seems like this already happened. Don’t worry Barnes and Noble, I’ll still buy real books at your stores sometimes…just not anywhere near as often as I will at Tattered Cover, Powells, or the like.