{"id":6430,"date":"2010-08-19T10:41:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T15:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6430"},"modified":"2010-08-19T10:41:02","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T15:41:02","slug":"barnes-and-noble-taking-the-fight-to-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6430","title":{"rendered":"Barnes and Noble taking the fight to Amazon."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s rather an interesting post at <strong><a title=\"B&amp;N Keeps Up the Fight!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/news\/ci_15809109?source=rss&amp;nclick_check=1\" target=\"_self\">MercuryNews.com<\/a><\/strong> that goes into a little more detail on what we&#8217;ve alluded to many times. <strong>Barnes and Noble&#8217;s<\/strong> <strong>720<\/strong> retail stores were the envy and nemesis of every book retailer out there, and have\u00c2\u00a0allowed it a dominant position in the North American marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>Then along came the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong> with its obvious emphasis on the digital platform\u00c2\u00a0and suddenly all those bricks and mortar storefronts begin to resemble dinosaur bones.<\/p>\n<p>Or do they? After a shaky start, <strong>B&amp;N<\/strong> has charged into the digital age releasing its own eBook reader <strong>nook<\/strong> to combat Amazon&#8217;s <strong>Kindle<\/strong>, while releasing\u00c2\u00a0one digital adaptation after another&#8211;and all of it tied into its <em>real-world<\/em> properties.\u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s clear that B&amp;N\u00c2\u00a0doesn&#8217;t just want to survive the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong>. <strong>B&amp;N<\/strong> wants to come out on top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s rather an interesting post at MercuryNews.com that goes into a little more detail on what we&#8217;ve alluded to many times. Barnes and Noble&#8217;s 720 retail stores were the envy and nemesis of every book retailer out there, and have\u00c2\u00a0allowed it a dominant position in the North American marketplace. Then along came the eBook Revolution &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6430\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,4,5,8,12,15,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6430"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6441,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430\/revisions\/6441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}