This week, the Nook Tablet 7 will go on sale, a highly anticipated device that everyone is eager to get their hands on. Many believe this will mark the beginning of Barnes & Noble's resurgence . This may well be true, but even more importantly, it could be a business model that many could adopt to compete against Amazon.
The idea of ​​having their own services and devices is something that is attracting other stores or famous companies like Best Buy.
Best Buy and other companies could copy the Barnes & Noble model if it is successful ...
The famous chain of stores has already begun incorporating its own technical service for electronic devices and will possibly start distributing its own products as well as other products. Just like supermarkets today, where they offer their own brands along with other similar but more expensive products.
Thus, Best Buy could also launch its own brand of tablets , devices that would not differ much from other devices such as the Amazon Fire or the Nook Tablet 7 but would have the Best Buy brand as well as some additional features.
Carrefour also has something similar with its eReader , a white-label eReader that it sells alongside other devices, but its price is lower, or at least that's how it's advertised.
In any case, it seems the market will once again be flooded with identical devices that only change the brand or name . Something similar happened with mobile phone operators and Chinese mobile phones.
This might be interesting for those wanting a tablet or e-reader for under $50, which would be appealing to the end user, but it's far from certain. What do you think? Do you believe we'll be flooded with devices under different names?