Uh-oh. Looks like demand for the Nook was higher than Barnes & Noble expected. According to B&N, the high-profile new ebook reader device has gotten a lot more pre-orders than they were expecting.

If you had the foresight to order your Nook early in the game, you’re fine. Your device will still ship on November 30th as planned.
But from this point on, if you pre-order a Nook, your device won’t ship until at least the first week of December. It’s good news that the Nook is already so popular, but you have to wonder how many of the devices B&N intended …read more

One of the items on my Christmas wish list for last year was an Amazon Kindle. I still don’t have one, and probably for the better because they’ve come out with a larger format version in the Kindle DX. Now there’s another player in the market with Barnes & Noble releasing their eBook reader, the Nook.

The images above are not to scale of each other, but the center image is the Kindle DX which you can tell is much larger, just using the scale of the person’s hands (that is unless that got some tiny person to use as …read more

The ebook world has been all abuzz this week about Barnes & Noble’s long-awaited ereader, the Nook. It’s an impressive machine that promises capabilities beyond Amazon’s popular Kindle. We’ll have to wait until the end of November to see if it can deliver on all of its promises.
In the meantime, Amazon has taken the first step in addressing one of Kindle’s deficiencies, today announcing Kindle for PC, a free PC program that will let you read Kindle ebooks on your computer. (No word yet on a Mac version, but I’m working on finding out.) Barnes & Noble has offered a …read more

Has the first real challenger to Kindle’s throne arrived at last? Sure looks that way, ’cause this baby is loaded with all sorts of advanced functions that Kindle can’t touch — and at the same $259 pricetag.

Barnes & Noble picked up Amazon’s gauntlet today with the revelation of its own ereader device, dubbed the “Nook.” B&N’s device measures 7.7″ x 4.9″ x .5″, and weighs 11.2 ounces (smaller than Kindle, but an ounce more), the Nook’s snazziest feature is its two screens: one e-ink for book reading, the other a color touchscreen for all your navigation needs, including a virtual …read more