Figures. Just yesterday we write about all the different e-books you can get your hands on this holiday shopping season, and then we get a bombshell:Barnes & Noble is 100 percent sold out of nook . The company says that it has exhausted its current supply, and will only have enough nooks to fulfill current pre-orders. In other words, if you were thinking about getting a nook for Christmas (or whatever holiday you celebrate) but didn’t pre-order one yet, well, too late now.
To throw some cold water on this volcanic story, Barnes & Noble says people won’t have to wait too long to get their nook if they order now. The expected ship date here on out is January 4, 2010, only a few days after Christmas day. So while the nook won’t be sitting under your tree, it’s not like you’ll have to wait months and months to get yours.
The big winner in all of this, of course, is Amazon, whose Kindle 2 is widely available. Considering there’s really not too much of a difference between the two readers, I think it’s safe to say that a few people who were prepared to buy a nook may now spring for the Kindle.
“Considering there’s really not too much of a difference between the two readers” Ever seen the looks of the two? Now repeat that sentence like you mean it.
I agree, the Kindle looks like it was made in 1995.
I recently purchased a Kindle 2. Comparing the two, Kindle wins. Nook books are overpriced and you have to pay tax on the books. I compared prices on about ten books and none of the B&N books were cheaper. Further, color touch screen is nothing but eye candy. I want to read and don’t need to see my book cover in color on a useless touch screen. Finally, selection…Amazon wins that one by a landslide.
Amazon wins on price, in one sense, but not selection. Having the Google Books available on nook is a win, as well as support for ePub and native PDF support.
I think I would also like to watch movies in that little colored screen touch screen from Nook while I read a book.
Barnes & Noble PR department tells me “nook” is lowercased in all cases and there is no “the” before the word, just “nook” — got that Brad Stone?
Dear Brad and David Pogue and John Markoff and Jenny Lee and Ashlee Vance and Vindu Goel and Brad Pitt and Eric Taub and Ms Cain Miller and Greg Cowles and Motoko Rich and Sam Tannenhaus at the New York Times:
I asked Barnes & Noble’s PR dept corporate communications dept Ms Carolyn Brown [cbrown@bn.com] and she told me in no uncertain times that nook is lowercased, always, except when it is the first word in sentence, of course, and that it does not take a “the” before it.
She wrote to me when I asked whether USA newspapers and editors and bloggers should CAP or lowercase the word “nook” — and she replied:
“It is all lowercase nook and just nook not the nook.”