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Sep 20, 2026
Glenn ToppingGUEST
The books are either on Amazon or Kindle.
Glenn ToppingGUEST
Amazon, was it Kindle or Nook or Barnes & Noble online or the xlibris.com, which is the publishing company.
John J. WileyHOST
Glenn, I appreciate you being a guest on the show.
John J. WileyHOST
Thanks so much for your service.
RussHOST
What brand of e-reader was introduced by Barnes & Noble in 2010 to compete with Amazon's Kindle? I'm going to beat around the bush.
RussHOST
This is the Barnes & Noble's Nook.
RussHOST
It is N-O-O-K Nook, and that gets you to 11 points, and it gets you these tangents.
RussHOST
Four-letter words, companies, 2010s, or Amazon?
Mike BaineyGUEST
Let's go four-letter
Tyler OlsonHOST
Yeah, I remember where I was when I read it, too.
Tyler OlsonHOST
It was when I used to work at Barnes & Noble, and I was like the guy that was at the Nook counter.
Tyler OlsonHOST
Remember the Nook?
speaker_2ADVERTISER
Mm-hmm.
Tyler OlsonHOST
was like their kindle uh it was the nook color so i was able to read comic books on there and the cool thing was i had this barnes noble account that the store used that they gave me the actual information for like the login which gave me access to every book for free so i might have put that on my personal kindle as well but you didn't hear that from me you didn't hear that from me but i remember like at work reading disassembled just in front of the store and occasionally when people walk in i'd stop but i remember thinking like man this is rad as hell.
DaraHOST
Yeah.
DaraHOST
I have actually been back reading my old Nora Roberts books that I have on my Nook and my Kindle and stuff.
RaraHOST
You know,
DaraHOST
she's local
James DauntGUEST
Yeah, I mean, I, I, I think that that was a lazy narrative, um, but it was one that people believed.
James DauntGUEST
And then there was a lazy narrative that Kindle/Nook was going to supplant and s- uh, the physical book itself.
James DauntGUEST
Um, and that, you know, we were all gonna be having our Kindles and our Nooks and, you know, that's the end of the game.
James DauntGUEST
Um, a- again, very lazy thinking.
James DauntGUEST
I knew that if the bookstore was a good bookstore, people would wanna shop in it.
Heidi Gray McGillGUEST
And now I make more money on YouTube through those pesky commercials.
Heidi Gray McGillGUEST
Then I do any other place, any other Audible, ACX, Barnes & Noble, Nook, Chirp, all the others combined, Spotify, Apple Books.
Heidi Gray McGillGUEST
I make more on YouTube.
Heidi Gray McGillGUEST
Now, I'm not making a lot of money, but it is something.
Richard CurtisGUEST
And that was when he first started to make money.
Richard CurtisGUEST
And after that, we made a lot of money from Kindle and iPad and the Nook.
Richard CurtisGUEST
And we were doing very well.
Richard CurtisGUEST
But in 2012, I noticed the sales for the Nook were going down.
Richard CurtisGUEST
Amazon revenue had dipped.
Richard CurtisGUEST
And I began to worry that the romance, public romance with e-books was beginning to diminish.
Lea AppletonGUEST
So it's in paperback and Kindle and Audible format.
Lea AppletonGUEST
I guess you can get it on Nook too, which is kind of cool.
Lea AppletonGUEST
And my website is wildwayfinding.com. And you can get in touch with me through my website.
Lea AppletonGUEST
I also just, especially for those of us who are of a certain age and we're starting to realize our bodies are getting older and
Stephen J. DubnerHOST
What was that period like for you as a bookseller?
James DauntGUEST
Yeah, I mean, I, I think that that was a lazy narrative, um, but it was one that people believed, and then there was a lazy narrative that Kindle/Nook was going to supplant and s- uh, the physical book itself.
James DauntGUEST
Um, and, uh, you know, we were all gonna be having our Kindles and our Nooks, and, you know, that's the end of the game.
James DauntGUEST
Um, a- again, very lazy thinking.
James DauntGUEST
I knew that if the bookstore was a good bookstore, people would wanna shop in it.
Paula PanarielloGUEST
And my books are on there and how you click into me to get to my books from Amazon, Book Baby.
Paula PanarielloGUEST
I'm on Nook.
Paula PanarielloGUEST
I'm on multiple formats.
Maria LucasenHOST
Awesome.
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