3 Nook features that were ahead of their time

Barnes & Noble's tablet experiment is over. Here are the features others should steal (or already have).

Unfortunately for Barnes & Noble, its Nook readers and tablets just haven't been the home run the struggling bookseller had hoped, a hard truth that became clear when the company reported a $118.6 million net loss for its fiscal fourth quarter this week.

"It's no secret the HD and HD+ didn't quite meet our expectations in terms of sales," Stephane Maes, Barnes & Noble (BKS) VP of product, told Fortune this May.