The company has said it is turning itself around, in particular by investing heavily in its Nook e-book division, though the plan remains risky.
He once described the book as mankind's "single greatest technical advance," and noted: "For each of us, reading remains a private, uniquely qualitative nook of our life.
The old Nook was closer to the mark, and remains so; it's still for sale, though it's looking rather long in the tooth next to newer Pearl-based e-readers.
If you've ever gazed out the window while jetting cross country, you know that much of America remains a vast wilderness with plenty of nooks and crannies to accommodate the $50 billion annual business of burying the detritus of modern life.
This collection of houses and outbuildings are all that remains of the 140-acre Nook Farm, named in 1853 by its purchasers, John Hooker and Francis Gillette, for a nook formed by the Park River, which flowed through it.
Although it aches him to know that the remains of many have not been found, he said: "I feel satisfied that we got every nook and cranny.
The Newest NOOK Imaginable?
It showed the Nook HD+, not the Nook HD.
Darwin would recognise every nook.
