Consumers May Have to Wait for a Nook
The WallStreet Journal is reporting heavy demand on Barnes and Noble’s new ebook reader, Nook. Evidently customers were told three different dates that the Nook would ship, starting in late November and continuing through mid December.
A spokeswoman for the company said that demand “surpassed [their] expectations.” You can preorder your Nook here.
The article says Nook “runs on Google Inc.’s Android operating system, and features an e-paper display from E-Ink Corp. for reading and a smaller color-touch screen for control and typing. Its wireless capacity will enable users to download books from the retailer’s online bookstore.”
Another interesting tid-bit from the WSJ article: a projection on ereader sales in the US. 3 million in 2009.
Are digital books finally hitting their stride?
Lil said:
I love digita books. Not as much as print, but I do love the convenience. To be honest though, all of these other readers have one huge disadvantage. Their price. Looking for an ereader last year, I priced several different ones. The Nook is nice, but really, no different than the others. I’ll stick with my ebookwise reader or print. At least with mine, I don’t have to pay to upload my own book as with some.
Ali said:
The nook looks nice… I’d like to test one out, but I already have a kindle that I love. It’s the color covers that you get to see that interest me. Hm, maybe I can give Kindle to little sister and buy nook for myself, lol
admin said:
Lil, what formats work on the ebookwise?
admin said:
Ali, what a nice big sister you’d be.
Rachel M said:
I am considering getting the nook so that I can load ePub and PDB files, as well as MP3s, PDFs, and JPGs in addition to ebookwise that I already have. I use Fictionwise.com alot and try to get the formats that I can load directly to it. I have a converter for microsoft reader (as long as it is not secured) These are the ones that I can load without conversion – Rich Text Format (.rtf), Rocket eBook Editions (.rb), Plain text files (.txt)
Microsoft Word (.doc), Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt) and OEBFF (.oeb).