{"id":12157,"date":"2014-01-11T14:28:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T20:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12157"},"modified":"2014-01-11T14:28:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T20:28:53","slug":"nook-sales-crashed-by-over-66-percent-during-2013-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12157","title":{"rendered":"Nook sales crashed by over 66 percent during 2013 holiday season"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>On Thursday, Barnes &amp; Noble <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnobleinc.com\/press_releases\/1_9_14_2014_holiday_sales.html\">announced<\/a> that \u201cdevice and accessories sales\u201d plummeted to $88.7 million during the October through December 2013 holiday period, a drop of 66.7 percent. The company attributed the drop to \u201clower unit selling volume and lower average selling prices.\u201d Of course, that\u2019s prime shopping season, when most retailers see a spike in sales. The company added that <strong>\u201cdigital content sales\u201d were<\/strong> $36.5 million during the same time frame, <strong>a drop of 27.3 percent<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/2014\/01\/nook-sales-crashed-by-over-66-percent-during-2013-holiday-season\/\">Nook sales crashed by over 66 percent during 2013 holiday season | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Barnes &amp; Noble announced that \u201cdevice and accessories sales\u201d plummeted to $88.7 million during the October through December 2013 holiday period, a drop of 66.7 percent. The company attributed the drop to \u201clower unit selling volume and lower &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12157\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[405,525,931],"class_list":["post-12157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","tag-ebooks","tag-market-trends","tag-nook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12176,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12157\/revisions\/12176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}