{"id":13352,"date":"2011-01-08T11:34:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T16:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=13352"},"modified":"2011-01-08T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T16:36:00","slug":"another-example-of-what-happens-when-you-dont-innovate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/01\/08\/another-example-of-what-happens-when-you-dont-innovate\/","title":{"rendered":"Another example of what happens when you don&#8217;t innovate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blockbuster vs. iTunes\/Netflix&#8230;now Barnes &amp; Noble vs. Borders:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>See<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/01\/06\/132713842\/digital-divide-propels-barnes-noble-past-rival\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Digital Divide Propels Barnes &amp; Noble Past Rival&#8221;<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; from NPR by Lynn Neary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The digital divide has created a chasm between\u00a0the nation&#8217;s two  biggest\u00a0bookstore chains: While Borders is\u00a0trying to hold off  bankruptcy,\u00a0Barnes &amp; Noble announced Thursday its best holiday sales  season in\u00a0more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Thrilled&#8221; was the word\u00a0Barnes &amp; Noble\u00a0Chief Financial Officer  Joseph Lombardi used to describe the mood\u00a0at\u00a0his company.\u00a0Holiday  sales\u00a0at BarnesAndNoble.com were up 78 percent over last year; store  sales increased by almost 10 percent.\u00a0While sales of hardcover books  were better than expected,<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong> Lombardi made it clear\u00a0that Barnes &amp;  Noble&#8217;s\u00a0popular e-readers, the Nook and the Nook Color, were behind the  good news.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockbuster vs. iTunes\/Netflix&#8230;now Barnes &amp; Noble vs. Borders: See &#8220;Digital Divide Propels Barnes &amp; Noble Past Rival&#8221; &#8212; from NPR by Lynn Neary The digital divide has created a chasm between\u00a0the nation&#8217;s two biggest\u00a0bookstore chains: While Borders is\u00a0trying to hold off bankruptcy,\u00a0Barnes &amp; Noble announced Thursday its best holiday sales season in\u00a0more than a decade. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,143,210,180],"tags":[614,677,661],"class_list":["post-13352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-disruption","category-emerging-technologies","category-innovation","tag-change","tag-emerging-technologies","tag-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13352"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13356,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13352\/revisions\/13356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}