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By: Nickole Rosborough

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By: Martha Lawson

Martha Lawson — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 01:13:48 +0000

We don’t have any big box stores locally – you have to drive at least 100 miles to a BAMM or BN store!I have a college town 18 miles from me, but the only bookstore is a small one and doesn’t carry romance unless it’s Nora Roberts or Danielle Steele. However, they are more than happy to order for you. I purchased a kindle over a year ago. I would much rather have purchased a Nook because I like BAMM. However, I purchased the kindle because they offered a 3G version which the Nook didn’t. At the time, I had no access to wireless without traveling to a larger town. After checking the prices between amazon and nook books, I am really glad I got the Kindle!!

By: Judy K

Judy K — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 01:14:32 +0000

I have had a Nook tablet for a little over a year. The transition from paperbacks to ereader was fairly easy. For one thing, I really enjoy the text sizing and backlight control. I have been price comparing and searching the lists of ereader books between BN and Amazon. What I found was, for the most part that Amazon’s prices were somewhat less to a lot less. I have found that Amazon has books that BN does not carry.
I agree with the opinions that Amazon is becoming a monopoly, but then I am in the same situation with cable TV, one cable company in the area that I live.

By: willaful

willaful — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:40:38 +0000

Much though I hate contributing to Amazon taking over the world, my recent customer service experiences with Barnes and Noble have been so dismal, I can’t see ever giving them my money again. Kobo isn’t great either. My sister wanted a Nook for her birthday, but she’s getting a Kindle.

By: SandyH

SandyH — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:49:24 +0000

We have a Barnes and Nobles in the next town. I life in a fairly large college town and you would think that we would have lots of independent bookstores but that is not the case. The last one went out of business awhile ago and their customer service was horrendous. I tried to patronize them but it was hopeless. I went to purchase some DVDs at the BN store but their prices were much better online. I was told that the stores charge a stocking fee so that is why one DVD was almost 10 dollars more than at BN online. For the first time, I did not renew my BN card. I mostly buy from Amazon and actually I buy new books from Paperbackswap Market which offers some new books.

By: Gail

Gail — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:29:16 +0000

Congratulations to Marie Force. Her books are great especially the Fatal series.

By: AAR Lynn

AAR Lynn — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:27:03 +0000

That’s really sad. I love my ereader, but I also enjoy print books and browsing. When a bookstore makes it harder to browse actual books because they aren’t carrying as many of them, that’s a pretty fundamental failure. I could tell that B&N was pushing the Nook, but I had no idea they were pressuring employees that hard.

By: Maggie AAR

Maggie AAR — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:41:28 +0000

My town used to have a few Indie bookstores that snubbed romance (and genre books in general) They went out of business. The stores we have in town now are the B&N, which is really just a coffee house with books you can read while drinking and two UBS. The UBS have good romance sections and one stocks new Harlequins at $2.75. Sweet!

By: Lynn M

Lynn M — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:43:14 +0000

Gotta say I’m sorry to read the news about Barnes & Noble’s troubles. I’m worried for the future of brick and mortar bookstores in general, and with the loss of Borders, I fear what may happen if B&N can’t manage to to boost sales. The idea that I would have no place to physically browse makes me kind of sick.

Too, I have a Nook and have purchased quite a nice library of e-books. If something happens such that the Nook disappears, what happens to those purchases? Since B&N DRMs its e-books, how would I be able to transfer my library to another format?

My mother is retiring this month after working at B&N for the past 15 years. One of the biggest reasons she is quitting is because of the company’s policy of pressuring employees to push sales of the Nook and beating up on them for poor sales. She says it’s like having a giant cannibal sitting in the middle of the store. Books are now so secondary to all of the other crap in the store – toys and movies and games. Perhaps B&N needs to scale back to its roots.