These devices are almost secondary to what they're selling," he says. "I think the real story is going to be in terms of the content and the platform and the software. The Nook won't be available for sale until the end of November, but Buchanan says Barnes & Noble has the best chance of any competitor to Amazon so far.
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every Barnes & Noble has free Wi-Fi, and if you go into a Barnes & Noble with a Nook and get on their network, you can browse any e-book there for free." In addition, he says, "One really cool thing with the Nook is. You can't play with beforehand unless your friend has one." Every Barnes & Noble will carry Nooks, whereas, you know, Amazon, you have to go online, order it and wait for it to come in. "Barnes & Noble has stores you can go to. It's similar, he says, to the "cover flow" feature familiar to Apple customers who flip through album covers on iTunes or with their iPhones.Īnd there's one big advantage that Barnes & Noble has over its competitor, Buchanan says. He says what stands out about Barnes & Noble's new reader is the color LCD touch screen at the bottom of the device that allows users to browse book covers.
Gizmodo's Matt Buchanan has been playing with both the Nook and the Kindle. It's made by the other giant of book-selling: Barnes & Noble. Sony and a few other companies have also launched e-readers, but this week saw the debut of what could be the Kindle's first serious competitor: the Nook. Its first Kindle electronic reading device debuted two years ago, and the company just announced that its third-quarter profits surged almost 70 percent, thanks largely to sales of new Kindle models. 9 in New York City.Į-books: Depending on your point of view, they're either the savior or the destroyer of the publishing business. A man holds the Amazon Kindle at an unveiling event for the second-generation version at the Morgan Library & Museum Feb.
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