Vanessa Lewis at The Book Nook in Hove: "We opened in March 2009. I used to be a teacher, and Julie [Ward] my partner worked in marketing and publishing.

来自Hove的瓦内萨·刘易斯说：“我们从2009年3月开始营业，我以前是一名老师，我的合伙人朱莉以前从事市场与出版业。

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The Nook is strategically important to the company's future, having helped it grab more than 20% of the burgeoning e-book business in less than two years.

Nook对公司的前途有战略意义的重要性，在不到两年时间内帮助公司夺得了20%以上的新兴电子书业务。

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I’m not going to come to any conclusions about whether there’s a clear winner until the Nook shows up, but it’s going to be fun to watch the two book megamerchants duke it out.

在 Nook 面世前，我不会就是否有明显的胜利者给出任何结论，但是，观看两个超重量级的书商一较高低，还是件很有意思的事。

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The company has spent heavily on promoting its e-book reader, the Nook, and e-book sales in its stores.

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Basically, three things: its massive national retail footprint, its brand in the book business, and the Nook ereader.

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Amazon Fire's shows a cludgy carousel of content, and even that's better than the random assortment of book covers found on the Nook's home screen.

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