B&N to Amazon: Our Nook is Pretty Popular, Too
B&N to Amazon: Our Nook is Pretty Popular, Too
Posted 12/31/2010 at 7:47am
| by Paul Lilly
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It's a game of one-upmanship between Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Earlier this week, Amazon announced its third-generation Kindle is now the best selling product in the company's history, and not to be outdone, Barnes & Noble is saying the same thing about its Nook eBook reader.
"With millions of Nook eReading devices sold, the line has become [Barnes and Noble's] biggest bestseller ever in its nearly 40-year history," B&N said. "The new NookColor Reader's Tablet, introduced just eight weeks before Christmas, is the company's number one selling gift of the holiday season."
In addition, B&N said that even as its physical book business continues to grow, it now sells more digital copies than it does of the dead tree versions. On Christmas day alone, B&N logged more than 1 million eBook sales.
Image Credit: Barnes & Noble
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JohnP
January 01, 2011 at 8:33am
I have one of their new readers and love it. I was just reading with it for the past couple of days, using finge swipes and reading EPub books with it. Terrific reader and blazingly fast page turns, pearl dispaly, and all. It just gets no respect...
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