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Then, I thought about a waiter with a tray (cuz I am hungry people)

then I stopped assuming and read the title :D Keep the e-book market competitive B&N but don't overflow it please. e-readers is not something, I think, we need in huge numbers. ]]>Oct 27th 2009 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/Oct 27th 2009 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/
This is just idiotic.

In the coming decades, the price of "readers" (slates, tablets, etc.) will hit the FLOOR!

Readers will be printed OLED/eink hybrid with capacitive touchscreen, or some other far superior tech that doesn't exist yet, there will be dozens of different sizes available, and the price will be so low that people will own several.

Print media is certainly on its way out, slowly but surely. B&N is doing the smart thing here. Obviously not many people will buy these things as long as they're this expensive, and limited in use, but once these things break the $99 price point, and they offer additional functionality beyond simply reading, EVERYONE will have one..

Imagine a full HD slate that's no thicker than a legal pad, and costs under $100. This product WILL exist in the coming (probably 10-15) years.

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1. Price
2. conflicting standards and closed formats

Competition in the eBook arena has already started to lower prices. Did you notice Amazon do 2 back to back price drops on the Kindle around the Nook announcement? Also, in order to compete with he Kindle, all other manufacturers have decided to go with more open standards like ePub. I would frankly be surprised if Amazon doesn't open up the Kindle to epub by Christmas.

Flooding the market is a good thing for consumers. I don't hear a lot of consumers complaining about the market being flooded with laptops or flat panels when they can buy them for $400.

Yes it will lead to more comparison shopping, but in the end, everything you will be comparing will be better due to competition. You are ultimately less likely to end up with a poor quality overpriced device than if there is a drought in the market.]]>Oct 27th 2009 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/Oct 27th 2009 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/Oct 27th 2009 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/Oct 27th 2009 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/Oct 27th 2009 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/Oct 27th 2009 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/
I really want a nook, but my biggest worry is that B&N is not a hardware company and will let the device languish. This doesn't make me feel any better because it makes it seem like they just want to sell the books and just want to push any reader out there to get that service going.]]>Oct 27th 2009 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/Oct 27th 2009 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/
I agree with others that this seems to be going up against the Kindle DX, whereas the nook is the direct competitor to the Kindle 2. Given the very different form factors, I can understand why they would want to get behind both. I'm only curious as to why they aren't both branded similarly since they're both from B&N and Plastic Logic.]]>Oct 27th 2009 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/Oct 27th 2009 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/
With all the delays in the Plastic Logic, I am also betting that there will some issues with the product. The last video of the screen showed that it was extremely slow. That will be something that I look for as well as battery life.]]>Oct 27th 2009 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/Oct 27th 2009 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/Oct 27th 2009 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/
Amazon gives you 30 days to send the Kindle back if you don't like it. That IS a trial and they've had it since it launched.]]>Oct 27th 2009 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/Oct 27th 2009 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/Oct 27th 2009 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/que-proreader-hitting-barnes-and-noble-retail-stores-in-2010/
Nook isnt built by Plastic Logic it's to be built by Inventec http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=449677

"Inventec gets Barnes & Noble e-reader order
From Dow Jones Newswires
Friday 09 October 2009
Devices to ship in first quarter of 2010.

Inventec Corp. has received an order from Barnes & Noble Inc. to make 1 million e-readers for the U.S. book retailer, the Commercial Times reported Friday, citing unnamed sources.

Inventec, a notebook and server producer, will start shipping the e-readers in the first quarter of 2010 at the earliest, the newspaper reported.

Barnes & Noble operates the largest bookstore chain in the U.S."]]>Oct 28th 2009 12:44PM