Best Buy Selling Dual-Display Nook Ereader
Barnes and Noble has announced that the company's Nook ereader will be available from Best Buy locations from Sunday.
Best Buy will start selling Barnes and Noble's Nook ereader from April 18. The two companies announced the news yesterday. Best Buy will Sunday start selling the ereader along with associated accessories (covers, screen protectors, cables) and the BN ereader software.
"To date, we've limited Nook distribution to Barnes & Noble retail and online stores and the customer response to our eBook Reader has exceeded our expectations. We have enormous respect for the Best Buy organization and its focus on providing technology solutions for millions of customers," said Kevin Frain, executive vice president of e-commerce at Barnes & Noble.com. "Through this partnership, Best Buy customers will now have new and easy ways to access our expansive digital library on a variety of computing and mobile devices through BN eReader software and the Barnes & Noble eBookstore."
Launched in early February but unveiled last October, the Nook features two separate displays. The bigger screen is a black and white e-ink display, just like the Kindle has. The second display is a lot smaller and sits just under the first. It's a multitouch color LCD that can act as an on screen keyboard and is used for navigation and to display the device's menus. The Nook also allows users to 'lend' books to each other (over WiFi) for up to 14 days.
The reader costs $259 and boasts wireless downloads via Wi-Fi or AT&T's 3G network. It's got 2GB of internal memory, enough to store about 1,500 titles. It also supports MicroSD so users can expand on that memory if they want or need to. It runs Android but at the moment, doesn't support third party applications. However, at the launch, Barnes and Noble heavily hinted that this would come in the future.
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Ho hum.
I recently picked up a Samsung netbook for traveling. Has Win7 Starter. With Win7, you can hot key and rotate the screen 90 degrees. Rotate the netbook so the display is in portrait mode and the Page up and Down keys fall under your thumb. Perfect ebook reader.
But it probably does not play Crisis.
correction:
"To date, we've limited Nook distribution to Barnes & Noble retail and online stores and" so far we sold like 15. And then we realized that we would be better off selling electronics in an electronics store.
very smart move for barnes and noble. they can take a loss on the ereader its all about selling the ebooks.
"that the company's Nook ereader"
At first, I thought it said nookie reader... Would have made for a much more compelling product, imo!
Ho hum.I recently picked up a Samsung netbook for traveling. Has Win7 Starter. With Win7, you can hot key and rotate the screen 90 degrees. Rotate the netbook so the display is in portrait mode and the Page up and Down keys fall under your thumb. Perfect ebook reader.But it probably does not play Crisis.
I don't know how much of a book lover you are, but I just couldn't imagine reading books on an LCD screen. Nothing beats the comfort of paper and ink, although E-ink is somewhat close. Sadly, intense wrestling matches with a book's spine and the sheer weight of a good fat book are big drawbacks. Where oh where is the promised E-reader that is comfortable, light weight and affordable?
I'll have to see on of these in person, but the price is pretty compelling. Does this accept other ebook formats or is it proprietary to their system? And do they have the Amazon-like ability to delete content off of my reader whenever they want?
I bought one last month and it is much easier on the eyes to read books, than on a backlit screen. I added a 16GB card and have more than enough storage room. Any book you purchase is then also able to be read on the B&N reader program on iPhones, PC's etc. Prices vary from free to an average of $10. The only downside I've found on any ereader, is you have to turn it off for takeoff and landing when flying. When they come out with color e-ink, that would be even better.
B&N struck gold with this reader. I recently had the chance to demo a ~600$ kindle, a 400$ Sony eReader (there were four different models from Sony-- WTF?, they all sucked), and the ~400$ iRex reader. Of thses e-readers, the B&N nook is hands down the best experience. The nook really feels like it was developed directly from the customer complaints of the other e-readers; it's fast, easy to use/navigate, has a color user interface touchscreen, manages power very well, supports about every popular format (- iBook, - *.doc), allows book sharing with other nooks, is lightweight, you dont have to touch the e-paper to navigate (yeah -no annoying finger prints on the e-paper!), it's not associated with big brother Amazon meaning you own the purchased content (for now, we shall see if B&N makes the amazon misteak). The only complaint I have is the siginficantly slowed response time of the user screen when wifi is on (when it is just 3G there is no problem). For the price of one Amazon kindle, I bought two nooks (mine, and one for the wife
). Barnes&Noble must be counting on ebook revenue for selling such a great piece of technology for so cheap. The nook really make other e-readers feel like yesterday's tech.
2gb? that is a lot more the the iPad 256mb of ram.
2gb? that is a lot more the the iPad 256mb of ram.
No no, that's 2GB of flash storage (compared to the iPads 16/32/64 GB). However, since it is just an eReader, and not a super-sized iPod (though it does play mp3s), its more than enough space. Plus, unlike the iPad, it does have an microSDHC slot to expand on-board storage. But really, how many books does one person need stored on their nook at one time? I mean even a college student using this for textbooks wouldn't need more than a dozen books at a time (I have no idea how big e-Books are, but I imagine 2GB can hold quite a few books).
hellwig,
my bad, 2gb of hard-drive space is a big joke to. I gust it can't do much. makes the iPad look like a good deal now.
hellwig,my bad, 2gb of hard-drive space is a big joke to. I gust it can't do much. makes the iPad look like a good deal now.
If you hate your eyes and want to punish them for some reason...
hellwig,my bad, 2gb of hard-drive space is a big joke to. I gust it can't do much. makes the iPad look like a good deal now.
You do realize that 2GB of space is enough for "1500 books", right? If you need more space, but a 16BG memory card for it for a few bucks and you can store 13500 books.
I would rather buy an iPad.
How is this even comparable to an iPad? Its an ereader, not a tablet. The cheapest dell desktop is faster than an iPad, and cheaper too, and comes with a larger screen, so its better.
Waiting for the other display technologies to come out... like trans-reflective LCD.