Barnes & Noble Nook discussion
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Should I buy the Nook HD now that it's $129? BN Ereader Shutdown Rumors
I think they are marketing rumors. If I were going to spend $400 I would probably buy an ASUS tablet but for $130 the nook HD has a lot to offer. All the nice nook reader features and google play (android stuff) too. It is as good as advertised. I love the HD screen.Go for it.
Christopher wrote: "I think they are marketing rumors. If I were going to spend $400 I would probably buy an ASUS tablet but for $130 the nook HD has a lot to offer. All the nice nook reader features and google play (..."That's encouraging to hear! I'm probably going to go for it. I may need to sell my Nook Tablet then, since Walmart (who I bought it from) doesn't accept returns after a certain time and it's been months since that time. I hope I can get it sold!
You might want to reset it and give it to somebody else. My son had a nook color so I reset it and gave him the nook tablet. It is much more stable and faster and since I reset it it's like a brand new nook out of the box.
Even if B&N stopped selling ebook you can get them from other places and and load them on the Nook. Are you more worried about technical supprt for it?
Yep! I'll definitely reset it. But I don't want to lose my money from the purchase by giving it for free, and whereas my little sis has her own nook tablet, I'll probably try to sell this one!
JK wrote: "Even if B&N stopped selling ebook you can get them from other places and and load them on the Nook. Are you more worried about technical supprt for it?"Yes, JK, tech support and software updates (they abandoned the nook tablet pretty much). I don't buy much from the BN online store anyways so that probably wouldn't be too much of an issue.
Oh right, lack of updates is frustrating. That happened with me and the original Nook. For the price though, it still seems worth it to update to one. Especially if you can sell your tablet.
I've found their tech support to be pretty good. I use the chat sometimes if I have a quick question and call the 800 number if I have a more complicated question like how to do something with the cloud/library. I don't think they've dropped support on the NT and NC yet although they stopped advertising them once the HDs came out. I never thought the HDs would be this cheap, nice surprise.
Christopher wrote: "You might want to reset it and give it to somebody else. My son had a nook color so I reset it and gave him the nook tablet. It is much more stable and faster and since I reset it it's like a brand..."What do you mean reset it? Clear all your stuff out?
Do you guys think its worth buying the hd+ at all? is there really a difference?
Marylene: You can go into thw options and pick "restore to factory defaults." That'll make it like new again.
Marylene wrote: "Christopher wrote: "You might want to reset it and give it to somebody else. My son had a nook color so I reset it and gave him the nook tablet. It is much more stable and faster and since I reset ..."I can see getting an HD+ because of the size. It would be easier to browse the web and read magazines.
Nook just entered into a partnership with Nabi to develop a kids app for the device. I don't think they are going away. :-)
Well go figure. BN is going to "partner with 3rd party manufacturers" for its tablets, but continue to make dressers in house and continue support, platforms, etc. they plan to sell off their existing stock of tablets but say they will continue to support them. Saw it on cnet. I would post a link, but I read it through my cnet app and don't have a link.
i thought i saw something awhile back that google was going to buy "Nook" from B&N ... did anyone else see this
Hahaha. I love how my iPad auto corrected ereader to "dressers". Yeah, you are real smart there ipad. Guess I need to pay better attention.
I saw something about a partnership with Microsoft, but they passed. People are suggesting a google partnership.... But nothing has been officially announced from what I saw
Thanks for the link. I have been thinking they were over their heads in the very competitive tablet business. Sounds like they are going to sell off the existing nooks cheaply (I got one!) and then get into a partnership with some hardware company to sell new ones. I know ASUS builds the tablets for google, might do the same thing for B&N (just my speculation).I have always been more concerned about the software (the ebooks) than the hardware (the readers), I figure the readers will change every few years. It may be that we're reading our ebooks on some other kind of tablet eventually but it will be faster and cheaper because of the competitive nature of the business.
Interested in your thoughts...
“Going forward, the company intends to continue to design e-reading devices and reading platforms, while creating a partnership model for manufacturing in the competitive color tablet market,” the company wrote in today’s earnings release. “Thus, the widely popular lines of Simple Touch™ and Glowlight™ products will continue to be developed in house, and the company’s tablet line will be co-branded with yet to be announced third party manufacturers of consumer electronics products.”I don't understand what they're saying here? It sounds contradictory. So they are quitting the business but will still continue to work on them? Hmm?!
They will make the cheap ones and farm out the more complex tablets to a tablet manufacturer like ASUS or Microsoft. It makes sense to me. A hardware company could make them faster and cheaper. I think B&N has realized they are in the book business and not in the computer business!
Soo if one buys a new tablet now, are we still going to get the benefits of the new company changes or..? D:
I think so and they should still be supported. It will effect what people buy in the future (like after the holidays 2013). http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/25/techn...
After I wrote this I found another news article which confirms my support idea:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-5759...
They are going to continue to make the ereaders (the e-ink non color readers). They are getting out of the tablet (color, android) making business. To me, it seems like it really just boils down to someone else making the color tablets under their name.....
Vicki wrote: "I saw something about a partnership with Microsoft, but they passed. People are suggesting a google partnership.... But nothing has been officially announced from what I saw"That's what I read, that Microsoft is buying Nook, or partnering with Nook.
Colette wrote: "“Going forward, the company intends to continue to design e-reading devices and reading platforms, while creating a partnership model for manufacturing in the competitive color tablet market,” the ..."To me, it means that B&N will continue making the Simple Touch. It's the black & white (more brownish & greyish & Yellowish) one. It does not have color and is very simple and basic to use. You cannot delete a book from it, you basically can download a book or plug it in to the computer to delete or drag & drop books to it. You cannot play games on it. It basically is used just to read.
Someone else will make the tablets for B&N and they'll slap their name on it. The tablets are a mini computer.
I think it's B&N being realistic and wanting to make the Nook Tablet competitive in the tablet market.
I think I'm okay with this decision, I currently own 3 Nooks, 1st generation, Simple Touch and the Nook HD. My main concern is that B&N will no longer sell the Nook and that it will go away, I am not really an Amazon person and don't want to own a Kindle, I love my Nooks. And B&N are book people, not computer people, if they can get another company to manufacture a device for them and put the B&N name on it and it is a good product, I say go for it.
I'm the same way, do not need to get the latest and greatest device. I'm going to read on my nook HD until it falls apart and then buy whatever else they make that reads nook books. I love the nook HD and I'm sure the next one will be great too.
CNET thinks the HD/HD+ are very good deals and with Google Play better than the Fire. Keep in mind, right now, they are one of the best tablets out there. That will change this fall when the Fire and Nexus get updated. But right now?http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-33153_7-...
The Tech Crunch article was based on rumors and was quoted in a lot of other articles and even caused B&N's stock price to rise but it was later found to be exaggeration.I agree with the CNET article: they're good tablets with the addition of google play and the prices are good!
I'm with you Chrisopher, Nook has me for life, I have never owned a Kindle, and plan to never own a Kindle. I'm a Nook girl all of the way!!!
Maybe it's rumor. Maybe not. I know for sure I heard this on the news. And this is the same place I get all tech info and it hasn't been wrong.This rumor didnt come out of nowhere. It probably has been talks. We will see in 2014. I will stick with my Nook Color and Simple Glow.
If bn is getting out of the Nook business, why this?http://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/nook-...
I really do hope it's just a rumor.
I'm pretty sure it's not a rumour, unless the BN stores are uninformed themselves. Where I bought mine, they also spoke of it closing down. The prices are even more discounted in my state, too. the hd is 99 dollars, and the next one up, 129 and it goes from there..
TechCrunch published the article based on "internal documents they had received" from microsoft. Stocks went way up and a week or so later the word came out that these were just rumors. It's sort of like the way the National Enquirer publishes news stories... all they have to say is somebody told us they heard this and publish it.Considering the effect they had on stock prices it may have been deliberate (and illegal).
Retail sales associates are NEVER informed of whether a company is closing until about the same time as the general public. That individual location could be closing. And he could be reading a lot of the rumors online. I worked in retail for quite a Long time when I was in college and in my 20's. I've been through many company closings. County Seat, Suncoast, Petite Sophisticate, Circuit City, Lazarus.... We had no inside info.
That is true Vicki - employees are always the last to know. One of the managers at my job said the same thing about B&N closing, I really hope that is not the case. B&N is my favorite book store and I would hate to see it go away. I will continue to do my part and shop at the store as much as possible and I hope other people are doing the same. I do know that they have closed some stores that have not performed well, but they are not the only retailer that has done that so I don't really think that is an indication that they will close all stores, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for them.
Christopher wrote: "TechCrunch published the article based on "internal documents they had received" from microsoft. Stocks went way up and a week or so later the word came out that these were just rumors. It's sort o..."I usually go by National Inquirer. I try to go to sources that deal with technology. This very possible with B&N. They are not investing a lot funding into their Nooks operating system. With Microsoft, the Nook will be able to compete with Apple and possibly bring down the sales of the Kindle. But all I can say is just watch. Only time will tell.
I agree. In addition, quite a few B&N stores closed and the public didnt know until right before the closing. Remember Borders? We had a huge one Midtown. I would go there at least once a month. Gone now
My friend heard that B&N will stop making the Nooks and she freaked. What I told her, and please correct me if I'm wrong, is that B&N plan to keep making the Nook ST type readers for just reading and have some other company private label the tablets for them. I can only believe this can be a good thing because we all know they fail when it comes to supporting and upgrading these things. I would hope that if you needed support, the 800 number you call would be to the actual manufacturer. My friend was also afraid that she won't be able to get ebooks anymore but I can't imagine B&N dumping that division. It seems to be the only thing making money for them these days, but who knows. They're not the most savvy business out there. Even if you couldn't buy from B&N anymore, there are tons of other places to get ebooks. ePub seems to be the standard. That's why I didn't go with the Kindle because you have to buy the books from Amazon. I usually shop around to find the best price but will go with B&N if comparable because of the convenience.
Again, please correct me if I'm spouting gibberish. I don't want to be spreading false info.
They are not losing money from the nook ebooks, only from the cost of making the machines. So they're going to have somebody else make the machines and focus on selling books and ebooks. The ebook business is very profitable for them and nook format books will always be there as long as the company is in business.This is already the case with the google Nexus 7. It's made by a major tablet manufacturer called ASUS. Microsoft owns a big share of B&N already and they might make the tablets or they might get somebody else to do it. I don't think it will effect us much (do you really care who made your nook?) and the readers/tablets will get better and better!
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I have a simple touch w/light but my granddaughter has one and loves hers.
It would be nice to have skype. I disagree with Jane's comment about customer service. I've always been happy with B&N's customer service and I work for IBM tech support so I can tell the difference. The chat service is a little light... I only ask them simple questions.My daughter has a Nexus and it's faster. If I had the money and were starting over I might choose it over the nook. The nook is a great bargain though if you can live without the camera.
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From what I hear, service in the stores is usually good, but I don't have one nearby.
Do you think it's a good idea? I've read some articles and they're reckoning that BN is going out of the ereader selling business. Sooo idk if that's a concern or how that'd affect things, though idt that is confirmed.