Barnes & Noble To Spin Off Nook Media, Will Take It Public 51
Nate the greatest writes It looks like the recent rumors about B&N splitting up were true. Along with could-have-been-worse financial news, Barnes & Noble just announced that it's going to spin off its two-year-old ebook subsidiary into a new publicly traded company. The move won't be finalized until 2015, but when it happens the new company is expected to have both existing parts of Nook Media, including the less than successful ebook division and B&N College, which is still managing to turn a profit.
Re:B&N (Score:3, Insightful)
Other people have been trained to consider their free time to have no value. There is nothing I could possibly want to buy a a B&N that could provide enough discount to offset the the time I would spend getting there.
Re: What B&N needs (Score:3, Insightful)
I have both, and the Kindle has an easy of use about it that more flexible Nook cannot match.
Easy of use can be much more important than most geeks think.
Re:B&N (Score:5, Insightful)
Just because other people do things with their free time that you don't personally value doesn't mean that they don't value it. Some people just enjoy browsing in bookstores.