3 Responses to “the new nook eBook reader by barnes and noble?”

1. George M Says:
   November 1st, 2009 at 9:34 pm

   yeah get it

2. KellsWS6 Says:
   November 1st, 2009 at 10:31 pm

   i’m going to get one I think its really cool the features are awesome: share books for free with other nooks, free 3G for downloading books, newspaper/magazine, it also backs as a MP3 player for music and books on tape, and you can load personal pictures on it. Im not saying that if you get it that you can never get a printed version of a book, but it is a nice alternative and cheaper in the long run if you read alot.

3. Natural Says:
   November 1st, 2009 at 10:39 pm

   In my opinion, it is competiting with the Amazon Kindle (the bigger player in the market right now), and which to go depends on your need.

   From the official page of B&N, here is how the Nook compares with the Kindle:

   http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/compare/

   Since Barnes and Noble page is only mentioning the advantage of the Nook over the Kindle, let me try to tell more about the benefit of the Kindle 2 over the Nook:

   - There is no internet browser for the Nook. So even with Wi-Fi, you can only use it to purchase book. You cannot do searching in Google, Wikipedia, check email, etc., like what you can do with the Kindle.

   - The Amazon Kindle has international free 3G wireless which covers over 100 countries. So even if you’re in places like the UK or Australia, you can access the internet with the Kindle free of charge. The Nook has wireless only within the U.S., and is limited for use of buying books only

   - The Kindle is available outside the U.S. (it ships to 176 countries), while the Nook only ship within the U.S. at this moment.

   - The Kindle has text-to-speech function, so it can treat an ebook like audio book. This function is not present on the Nook.

   - Amazon is already doing some change after the Nook is announced (still more than one month for it to be available). They dropped the price of their International Kindle even further. And they are going to release a PC software which can read their Kindle books.

   One more thing to be aware is that, at first glance you may think the Nook can read ebooks with color touch screen. But indeed the color touch screen is only a small screen beneath the greyscale eink screen, and seems it is only used to browse the cover of ebooks.

   In my opinion, it is a tie between the Kindle and the Barnes and Noble. But if you may travel and you enjoy reading during your trip, you should go for the Kindle for sure. Moreover, I trust the Kindle will come up with some strategies very soon, like improving their lending book function. The Kindle is the biggest player in the ereader market right now, and I believe it will put enormous effort to hold its position.

   I recommend this article as well, it is the best review on ebook readers I’ve ever read:

   http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Freview%2FR3QM7LGL62MZ4X%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref%255F%3Dcm%255Fcr%255Frdp%255Fperm&tag=ereader-2-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957

   Hope this helps you decide.