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All the rumblings were apparently accurate. Barnes and Noble is releasing an eBook reader tomorrow according to the WSJ. The new eReader on the block will be called the Nook, and will be priced at $259. Many felt that Barnes and Noble would try to get the price in under Amazon’s Kindle, but that didn’t happen.
The Nook will have an eInk display, and a color touchscreen below the main display. This may have something to do with the price. The new device will also have an, as yet unspecified, wireless connection for downloading books. Apparently the Nook will allow users to, “lend eBooks to friends”. If true, this could be a killer app. With the Kindle having solid control of 60% of the market, the Nook will need all the differentiation it can get. We'll have to wait until tomorrow to get all the deatils. So... interested?
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JohnP
October 20, 2009 at 1:16pm
I have a SONY reader and I like it a lot and have read easily over 150+ novels on it. What all of these readers CANNOT do is magazines and textbooks. No color and a PDF of a textbook page is impossible to read. I am hoping that the Apple tablet will be the blockbuster. 10 inch screen will be smaller than I like, but full color and a decent refresh rate for readability will be what I have been looking for all along.
dracoress
October 20, 2009 at 4:51am
I like the feel of books, I'm not sold on these e-book readers. I like my shelves full of books.
