http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/ Engadget Comments for Nook fails to communicate, download purchased ebooks http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 26th 2009 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 26th 2009 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 26th 2009 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 26th 2009 6:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/
You could even say that throwing that bit about the Kindle in at the end of your reponse was "fanboyish." But I'm not gonna...]]>Dec 27th 2009 1:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 28th 2009 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 26th 2009 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 26th 2009 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/
Make it so!]]>Dec 26th 2009 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 26th 2009 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 26th 2009 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/
a billy club]]>Dec 26th 2009 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/
It's called a BlackJack or sap. Good for the gentle art of persuasion. Especially good for making criminals 'fess up even if they didn't commit the crime.]]>Dec 26th 2009 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/

(look up Cool Hand Luke on wikipedia for those not in the know...)]]>Dec 26th 2009 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/This company has to be ran by Monkies for this to all make sense.
Agreed?]]>Dec 26th 2009 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/
]]>Dec 26th 2009 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 27th 2009 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 26th 2009 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 26th 2009 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/"If you're not smart enough to figure out that the service might be overloaded ON CHRISTMAS DAY then WTF are you doing with an eBook reader??"

They might've been thinking: "Amazon did it with no issues. Why would B&N have a problem?"]]>Dec 26th 2009 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 26th 2009 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/
And tom dick and harry can come up with device. Creating a world class infrastructure to inject, manage and deliver content is a whole new ball game.

Guess who is the champ here?? Amazon! :)]]>Dec 26th 2009 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://the-gadgeteer.com/2009/12/26/sony-reader-site-buckles-under-load/

Seems that ebook readers were quite popular for Christmas this year.]]>Dec 26th 2009 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/
I think if you're going to use a blog post to critique a company for fail, the post itself shouldn't be quite so overloaded with fail.

]]>Dec 26th 2009 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 27th 2009 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 26th 2009 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/
The sad thing is, the writing has been on the wall for the printed media industry far longer than it was for music and video. And they still managed to screw it up.]]>Dec 26th 2009 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 26th 2009 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 26th 2009 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/
Agreed. Nothing more than fodder for the "This sucks, that sucks" crowd.]]>Dec 26th 2009 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/
That's just a sad excuse to overlook a badly conceived, half baked products trusted into the hands of a consumer who has paid an arm and leg and all he wants is his book to download.

Has no one at B&N heard of this term called "Performance and Scalability Testing"????]]>Dec 26th 2009 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/
Have they not used the internet before? Do they post by snail mail? Or do they have the attention span of a moth on crack?]]>Dec 26th 2009 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 27th 2009 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 26th 2009 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 26th 2009 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Windows 1.0
Mac 1.0
iPhone 1.0
Unless you want to put up with bugs, best to wait til version 1.1 :)]]>Dec 26th 2009 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 26th 2009 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 26th 2009 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/
For items from Microsoft, always wait for 3.0 if you can. :)]]>Dec 27th 2009 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 26th 2009 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 26th 2009 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 26th 2009 7:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 26th 2009 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 27th 2009 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/Dec 26th 2009 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/
B&N need to get it fixed, and fast, or it could turn into a game-changing bungle, but a few minor speed bumps should be expected.
]]>Dec 27th 2009 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/
Servers overloaded by a sudden glut of users. Happens in games, happens with sites, etc.

I'm sure it'll work itself out.]]>Dec 27th 2009 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/nook-fails-to-communicate-download-purchased-ebooks/
The problem is that the nook seems half-finished, which doesn't instill confidence in people who want to invest in the technology. ]]>Dec 28th 2009 12:00AM