Interesting article, but it seems like it starts in the middle of a conversation and I'm missing a bunch of context. BN is abandoning hardware? Thinking about

Interesting article, but it seems like it starts in the middle of a conversation and I'm missing a bunch of context. BN is abandoning hardware? Thinking about it? It seems to me that BN has got something fundamentally wrong with it and I don't understand it well enough to figure out what it is. Fundamentally: if I am in a BN staring at a book that I want to buy, how is it impossible for BN to sell it to me at a price competitive with Amazon -- and it's not even close. I'm guessing the deals they negotiate with publishers suck, or the deals publishers sign with Amazon suck. In any event, BN is getting reamed. My guess is BN loses money on Nooks, so selling them as a generic Android device isn't going to help it any. I visit BNs frequently and it is gradually turning into a toystore with a coffee shop. Unless Toys'R'Us missed a huge opportunity by not providing coffeeshops and a couple of magazine racks for its customers, I don't think this is long-term viable. Again, I don't know what's broken at the core of BN but I suspect it simply needs to negotiate better deals with its suppliers. It provides a GREAT shopping experience except for that pesky price part.