M. Jericho Banks PhD

Barnes & Noble Considering Options for Nook

January 11, 2012

FROM RETAILWIRE:
Barnes & Noble said last Thursday that it was weighing spinning off its Nook business. The move would enable B&N to focus more closely on its aging bookstore business and e-commerce operations while capitalizing on the value created in its successful e-book venture. Do you think Barnes & Noble should spin off its Nook business?      [more...]

A valuable B&N niche is their Nook. It's their Nook niche, and it says so right there in the article generating these RetailWire comments. Why would they back away from it?

For a few months, now, ZDNet and C/Net have been predicting a shake-out in the handheld digital hardware market. Phones and tablets. Their take is that software will become more important as the strongest hardware suppliers survive and the weaker ones fall away.

Stay the course, B&N!