Last night, we got a tip telling us that this morning, Barnes and Noble's ship date for the Nook would slip further -- from the
previously known date of January 11th to January 15th. And hey, what do you know? The BN website is now showing an expected ship date of January 15th -- though it seems this would be the shipping date for new pre-orders, not for pre-existing ones. Disappointing for all of us who are expectantly awaiting our units, no doubt, but there's the possibility of further bad news. The last time we checked in, the Nook was
expected in some Barnes and Noble retail stores on the 7th of December. This tipster, who as we've just mentioned proved spot on with the expected shipping date (and whose name we know, though they've asked us not to print it), also says that no Barnes and Noble stores will have actual Nooks on hand until after Christmas. Of course, we have no way of knowing if this information will turn out to be correct, but at this point, we thought it seemed a decent enough piece of "possible" to pass on.
Update: We've just spoken with a Barnes & Noble rep, and they say they will have the Nook in select stores on Monday, December 7th, so we're just going to have to be patient and see.
Update 2: If it was not clear enough, this new date of January 15th (as well as the previous date of January 11th) seems to pertain ONLY to new pre-orders of the device -- not orders placed before the initial run sold out.
Update 3: And the in-store delay is official... Barnes & Noble is now confirming that the Nook will NOT be available in stores on Monday, as it's "intent on fulfilling earlier preorders."
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posted December 4th 2009 11:41AM
I'd take that eReader out for a nice seafood dinner and NEVER call it again. Seriously though, I'd buy that bitch 5 times over.
@John Stathakis
I agree. If this thing is half as cool as it seems, waiting an extra couple of weeks would still be well worth it. As it stands, my pre-order is still expected to ship December 18. I just hope it stays that way!
@John Stathakis
That is one hot piece of tech. I'd hit it.
I hope they didn't contract with the 'crunchpad' factory.
You can Thank Ellen, bitch bought them all and gave them away. Barns and Noble wasn't ready for that.
@aaronaaron
Eff that unfunny biatch. Well, I wouldn't eff that ...
Um, I'm sure this will continue. That date is for folks who HAVE NOT pre-ordered. You basically get put at the back of the line.
The first set of preorders originally scheduled to go out on November 30 are still expected to go out by 12/7 along with the second set of preorders.
Mine is supposed to be in my hands by Dec. 9. Whether or not it'll actually happen is the mystery. If I don't have it before Christmas though, I'm canceling my order. I ordered it the day they announced it, so there is no excuse that could make me accept waiting a month longer than I expected.
Yeah, this article is a little misleading. As I understand it, they keep changing the shipment for current orders. So if you ordered the nook when the shipment date said January 11, you still get it then. I ordered it when the ship date said December 18th, and my ship date is still saying that.
I may be wrong.
@(Unverified)I don't think you're wrong, but when I ordered my ship date said November 30, and it still says November 30 and I am still nook-less.
@(Unverified) But did you at least get an email from B&N telling you that your nook would be shipping soon?
@Quastor Yeah, the e-mail said "You'll be one of the first to have one. Your nook is shipping soon and we expect to have it to you by December 9th. As an added bonus, we've upgraded you to overnight shipping!" However, at this point I'll believe it when I see it.
How many did they plan on selling to be so back-ordered? 500?
I don't mind the shipping date being pushed back. It's one of the downfalls of being an early adopter. Better to give them the time they need to do it right than rush manufacturing to meet shipping dates. I'll wait; I'm sure my books aren't going anywhere until then.
It's not possible, it's near inevitable.
Look, with these ship dates, it means they don't have any produced yet! The difference between the two ship dates is air shipping (expensive) and putting them on a ship (cheaper).
So, if everything goes perfectly, they'll build them, have them clear customs and ship them out before December 18th. And inevitably, everything won't go perfectly.
Did anyone's ship Nov. 30th? It's pretty interesting Editors can't even get review units yet.
When speaking to a person at the high volume store in Oakbrook, IL, he told me that they will indeed have the Nook on Monday. The only problem is that they will only have one for demonstration purposes. They are not getting any in to put on sale and as of right now the only way to get one is to order it from the website. I assume it will be this way for the other high volume stores as well.
Well, I guess I'll have no chance to take a look at it before Christmas... so I'll go ahead and order the Kindle 2 for my wife.
This is too bad, I'm just going to wait for the inevitable announcement of a Kindle 3 with touchscreen in January/February. Then I'll make my decision.
I went to a high volume store in Portland OR and they said they originally were going to get demo units monday but now no store in Oregon is getting any. I wouldn't be surprised if no stores get them before xmas.
If this thing doesn't hit shelves until 1/15, and Apple announces a tablet the first week in January, the Nook will be DOA.
@(Unverified)
Sorry, I can't see Apple releasing anything like a reader. A tablet by Apple would run some form of OSX and include a lot of the functionality of an iPod touch or iPhone and would likely cost in the range of $800.
@(Unverified)
That is really misreading the market.
1. Apple won't have a tablet in January.
2. The nook and any mythical Apple tablet won't be competitors.
3. And even if they were ... plenty of people would choose a sub $300 device to whatever Apple would charge for their hardware.
@bjsguess I said *announce* a tablet in January, not ship.
@(Unverified)
Way to nitpick the least important thing in bjsguess' argument. The point is, this is in no way a competitor with the Apple tablet. So its release will have no effect on the Nook's sales. However, delaying the Nook's ship date until another competitor has a chance to release their new reader might.
@(Unverified) If Apple were to announce the tablet it won't be until January 7-10, or even in February for Macworld. If January 7-10th is when they decide to announce the tablet for say 800 bucks and the nook is only 259 the nook still has a leg up. I have a Kindle so I don't really care so much about the Nook, but I think that competition helps everyone involved in the ebook market.
Its really to bad , i was going to get one for the lady but i got her a Kindle instead because opening a IOU on Christmas is Crap !
This a textbook way to FAIL a product launch. And by "textbook" I mean the kind you can read on your Nook, if they ever ship.
would have been better for B&N to skip the flashy product 'launches' and do their major promoting WHEN the Nook was actually on hand. Building up the hype and then this continuing negative press is far worse for them than if the Nook had remained unknown to the public mind.
Still, it's possible, if the kindle is the only other major player for a while that the Nook could remain some sort of hard to get treasure.... Tickle Me Elmo anyone?
dude you can't think for a second that anyone is going to sit on their iphone and read a book for 2 hours until the battery goes out.
you also can't think for a second that someone is going to read a book on their Apple Tablet for 3 hours until the battery goes out. Nook's battery life is 10 days. That means rolling under the covers with your favorite cheesy romance novel, no strings attached. duh!
@AM321CAN
The apple tablet could very well use something other than a traditional LCD such as pixel qi or perhaps OLED.
Ya, Laura June really needs to fix the title of this post and clarify. This date is for *NEW PRE-ORDERS*. There are no units going to stores because they want to use them to fill pre-orders. There's no point in putting them in stores and getting people all excited for something they won't get until well after Christmas. At this point, they don't need more excitement/pre-orders, they need to fill as many pre-orders as possible before Christmas to avoid bad PR.
As was stated earlier, though they slipped on the Nov 30 ship date, they still plan on having a ton of Nooks in peoples' hands before Christmas (the people who pre-ordered first). I got the email with a Dec. 9 "promise". Whether or not it will happen, who knows, but they aren't telling me Jan 15.
Engadget: get your facts straight and clarify. Other sites are citing *YOU* with this sensationalist headline - you're propagating misinformation throughout the intertubes.
@(Unverified) This is actually really unclear at this point. As stated by a lot of commenters (and tipsters), pre-orders with ship dates IN THE PAST have not been changed, and yet no one has a Nook yet. We're keeping our eye on the situation, and I've updated the post to try to make it a little clearer.
@(Unverified) they should be in stores if they arent giving any to editors/critics. i want to at least be able to check it out for myself.
@Laura June Well, that's what I mean. The title of the article (and the original article itself, I think - have you edited it?) made it seem like no Nooks at all are shipping out until after Christmas, when in fact it is just new pre-orders. And yes, who knows if they will get them out before Christmas or not? However, B&N is at least still planning on it. The original article title did not. Thanks for changing it to clarify.
@iName No, they should be in the hands of as many customers as possible before Christmas. Why should a reviewer get one? They're sold out until Jan 15. Who is B&N trying to convince? Good or bad, they're completely sold out. They don't need any more press. So what if a reviewer thinks it's awesome: the customer who didn't get his nook before Christmas because some tech reviewer poached it isn't going to be a happy camper. I'm sure someone at Engadget pre-ordered one early enough to get one in the first batch and will review it. If not, they're welcome to borrow mine :P
Still waiting for CES to make any e-book reader decisions.
What a joke. Who is their supply chain manager and how do I get ahold of him to tell him what a loser he is? This says alot about BN.
Has Engadget indicated when they might have one for review? For those of us holding out to see what the reviews are like, it might be nice for them to tell us when to expect it. They must have some idea. Basically I'm getting a Nook or a Kindle, but not without reading some reviews of the Nook first.
I have been waiting and waiting and waiting to see what this thing feels like in my hands. I'd buy one in an instant, but I'm getting closer and closer to simply throwing the towel in an buying a Sony 505 for myself. I've been borrowing my Dad's on and off for weeks...
B&N really fumbled on this one. It's a shame too, because this looks to be a really impressive device. Hopefully someone will eventually be able to touch one.
I have been waiting and waiting and waiting to see what this thing feels like in my hands. I'd buy one in an instant, but I'm getting closer and closer to simply throwing the towel in an buying a Sony 505 for myself. I've been borrowing my Dad's on and off for weeks...
B&N really fumbled on this one. It's a shame too, because this looks to be a really impressive device. Hopefully someone will eventually be able to touch one.
did anyone's nook ship? like legit with tracking number and everything? at this point i feel like no one is getting a nook.
i refuse to order one until critics get theirs, i wanna know if it actually works before i get one.
also b&n is just losing potential customers, people would rather just get the kindle then wait 2 months for a product no one really knows anything about.
For the first time, I'm waiting. Asus may hit the market next year with an EEE reader. I want mp3, video and webbrowsing on mine. And open source OS. Apple's supposed tablet will be heavily tied to the app store. I can read e books on my digital display clock radio, but only at home, tied to a elec outlet. My 3.5" display DPF plays mp3, video and reads texts. My next device should be my last for a while. I want to read Clive Barker, jump to a video of Ian Dury, and then fire off a few emails. Make that device, and it'll ride on the seat of my 15 y/o Camry as I cruise to the beach.
just got my sony one today :)
I work at a B&N, we will have a device to see on Monday at my store. We need to get the staff trained on it over the weekend.
I ordered mine on November 25th (after the initial pre-order sold out) and was told mine would ship on January 4th. My order status page still says Jan 4th. I'm guessing the Jan 15th date is for the 3rd set of pre-orders?
I am very disappointed that there is not enough supply for the paying (and waiting) early adopters, yet there seems to be plenty for the entire audience of the Ellen Degeneres Show to get one. She even makes a comment about how they arent even available yet but BN was kind enough to provide them... Video below
http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/12/04/ellen.degeneres.gives.away.nooks.pixies.more/
Ok, as an update to the last post, a BN rep said they were only actually given $300 coupons toward the purchase of a Nook, not the actual products as the show indicated.
Got my tracking number last night! Next day air, so looks like those who pre-ordered day 1 will have it by Tuesday at the latest.