A Leaked Email Suggests the Nook Store is Coming to Brazil, South America

EverA Leaked Email Suggests the Nook Store is Coming to Brazil, South America Barnes & Noble eBookstore the master of mixed messages, in the past week Barnes & Noble laid off staff at their ebook division while at the same time they signed a deal with a Brazilian ebook firm.

Raquel Cozer, writing for Folha de Sao Paolo, reported late last week that the Brazilian ebook distributor Xeriph was catching the interest of their publisher partners with hints of Barnes & Noble.

Xeriph has sent out a new contract addendum to the 280 Brazilian publishers they work with, advising them of a new distribution channel. According to the email, the publishers can now elect to distribute their ebooks to the Nook Store.

At this time the Nook Store stocks a rather paltry 4400 titles in Portuguese. They've been selling ebooks written in that language since late 2011, but their selection is still quite limited (the Kindle Store stocks close to 20 thousand titles) so this deal is great news for Nook customers.

But more importantly, this deal is likely also a sign that the Nook Store is going to expand into Brazil and the rest of South America and Central America as well.

Why the entire region?

If we look at the Nook Store's past expansion efforts, it suggests that new local Nook Stores will be launched in a swath of countries and not just one store here and there. In November 2013 the Nook Store expanding into 30 countries. Aside from Canada and Australia, 28 of the countries were all located in Europe.

If this pattern repeats itself  then we'll likely see Nook Stores launch in most of Latin America in a single day. And given that the region primarily speaks 3 languages (Spanish, Portuguese, and English) it would make a lot of sense to launch all the local stores at the same time.

That is certainly the pattern which Google appears to be following; Play Books launched in  Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, And Venezuela in December 2013. Apple also launched iBooks in a number of South American countries in late 2012.

So far Google and Apple are the only 2 international ebook competitors to give much attention to South America; Amazon has only launched local Kindle Stores in Mexico and Brazil.

P.S. Speaking of Amazon, last week the retail giant started selling Kindles  in Brazil. While Amazon had launched the Kindle Store in Brazil in December 2012, device sales were handled by 3rd parties, not Amazon, including a cellphone retailer which managed 9 mall kiosks for Amazon.

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Nate Hoffelder is the founder and editor of The Digital Reader:"I've been into reading ebooks since forever, but I only got my first ereader in July 2007. Everything quickly spiraled out of control from there. Before I started this blog in January 2010 I covered ebooks, ebook readers, and digital publishing for about 2 years as a part of MobileRead Forums. It's a great community, and being a member is a joy. But I thought I could make something out of how I covered the news for MobileRead, so I started this blog."

1 Comment on A Leaked Email Suggests the Nook Store is Coming to Brazil, South America

  1. Hopefully you’re right on this, Nate.

    Because B&N were only ever selling in North America they don’t carry the burden of the global territorial book-sales infrastructure that seems to determine Amazon’s international expansion.

    While Amazon appears unable to operate outside the print distribution shackles it inherited, Google Play and other international operators are taking full advantage of their freedom to go where they please.

    It may only be on a Windows 8 app right now, but Nook have demonstrated clearly they see the bigger picture of the emerging global ebook market, and like Google Play are making a point of targeting areas where Amazon is busy alienating readers with its insidious surcharges.

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