It makes some sense that they would want out of the tablet market for good, since other tablets can run the Nook app, but how would they be
a competitive ebook vendor if there are no dedicated e-readers compatible with their books?
The obsession
ebook vendors have with silos and their antipathy towards easy interop is crippling their only
competitive advantage over Amazon, the one big thing they can use to increase the benefit a reader gets from their ecosystem.