You Can't Rest on Your Laurels

You know, after the Department of Justice filed suit against Apple and Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster, I imagined  Jeff Bezos is doing a victory dance around his office like Hugh Grant in the clip below.

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But now with the announcement of the Barnes and Noble and Microsoft collaboration I have to wonder if he is feeling so buoyant.  In case you missed the news, Microsoft is making a 605-million dollar investment in the Nook.

Barnes & Noble is creating a new subsidiary, tentatively dubbed Newco. Microsoft initially is investing $300-million and then over the next several years will invest an additional $305 million to help fund Newco’s international expansion – something that has hurt the Nook.

I have a Kindle and have good feelings toward Amazon; still, I am glad that this happened.  I think it just proves that the market place doesn’t need publishers to control pricing to maintain competition.

What are your thoughts?

– Leigh AAR[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]