Best Buy Confirms Plans to Carry Nook
PrintJust a few months ago, the Nook was one of the hottest holiday items, so much so that Barnes and Noble had trouble keeping up with demand. But starting this Sunday, April 18, you'll be able to drop by any Best Buy store and pick up B&N's $260 ebook reader.
The deal makes Best Buy the first chain (other than Barnes and Noble) to carry the Nook, giving the ebook reader more than double the exposure it's been getting from B&N's website and 723 bookstores. In addition, Best Buy said it plans to include Barnes and Noble's BN eReader software on some of the PCs and smartphones it sells.
This is a great move for Barnes and Noble, who not only is up against Amazon's Kindle, but more recently has been put in a position to go up against Apple's iPad. Apple last week said it has sold about 450,000 iPads in its first few days, while B&N hasn't released any sales figures for its Nook.
On a side note, Best Buy also sells Sony's ebook reader. Amazon's Kindle is only available on its website.
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Trooper_One
April 13, 2010 at 12:15pm
For an extra $100, they can synchronize the IP address of your coffee cup to the Nook to ensure proper operation.
Keith E. Whisman
April 12, 2010 at 4:58pm
For an Extra Fee they'll optimize you nook for optimum reading. Yeah.. Best Buy is great at hunting for that extra dollar.
AkuPenguin
April 12, 2010 at 3:27pm
And for an measly $100 extra, they'll even calibrate your brand new Nook's literatextric capacitron.
bikerbub
April 12, 2010 at 4:17pm
They'll even (for the low low fee of 30$) tell you how to make your Nook do everything you already knew how to do!
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