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To: SomeCallMeTim

Sales of Kindles?


4 posted on 06/01/2013 5:20:42 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001

They have a lot fewer books these days and their main competition went out of business (Borders). They make money on trinkets, coffee, etc.


6 posted on 06/01/2013 5:35:39 AM PDT by lodi90
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Kindle is an Amazon product.

B&N has the competing Nook which is not very successful.

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. “In many ways it is a great product,” Sarah Rotman Epps, a senior analyst at Forrester, said of the Nook tablet. “It was a failure of brand, not product.

10 posted on 06/01/2013 6:37:03 AM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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