Strong retail sales are the bookstore chain's ray of sunshine amidst patent litigations

Dec 9, 2011 12:47 GMT  ·  By

If anyone thought Barnes and Noble would actually see a great level of success with the Nook Tablet, they would be right.

Based on what Digitimes found, B&N's tablet device has been selling better than anticipated, Microsoft patent trolling or no.

Originally, it was predicted that about 800,000 Nook Tablet PCs would be ordered and pulled in before 2011 was out, but the figure was exceeded.

Strong retail sales during the Thanksgiving week, in North America, were cited as the primary cause behind this.

Inventec got to benefit the most from this, since the increased orders offset the sudden canceling of HP TouchPad tablet production.

Now we just have to wait and see what happens with all of those demands that Microsoft, for some reason, made (among other things, it wants to be given veto power on what Nook devices B&N plans to make in the future).