Barnes & Noble's losses are prompting the company to consider scaling back its Nook business to instead focus on
licensing its content catalog to other device makers, according to The New York Times.
Much like the headache of
licensing ebooks to libraries stateside, Japanese patrons and librarians have been frustrated by the lack of bestselling and new release
content available for digital lending, for many of the same reasons that publishers in the US have balked at making their entire
catalogs available to libraries, namely fears that print sales will decline.