B&N's Innovative Nook Wireless Book Reader Confronts Amazon's Electronic Book Reader
The modern Nook revolutionary wireless reading device being sold by Barnes and Noble, the worlds prevalent high street book stall with above 1,300 branches, looks set to lock horns with the worlds #1 selling portable ebook reader, the Amazon kindle.
While not long unveiled, the Nook electronic book readers are looking to ruffle Amazon's feathers further by taking it on straightforwardly in a segment of the market place, that up to yet, the Kindle has dominated. Since it's unveiling, first of all as the Kindle then later on in February 2009 as the Kindle , it has re-ignited the story book reader market-place by offering a mix of innovative technology, due to it's direct connect everywhere wireless networking and also the biggest range of books available for download at terrific, cheaper than the high street, price.
No doubt after going through ebook reader reviews, buyers brought in to the idea in a large way and it is just recently that the rest of the industry have woken up to the fact that this is the expectations of book retail. An so in the most recent couple of months we have had the statement from Sony of their intention to join in the fun, with their soon to be unveiled Daily Edition, and the latest press release from Barnes and Noble that their own competitor, the Nook, will be back to complete production very soon.
There are no doubts that the Amazon kindle 2 is the model everybody is gunning for. And to be frank it's pleasing to see a little opposition in this sector. Yes we have had the iRex iLiad but the ebook readers reviews disliked it because it was a little on the large side to be a wireless ebook reader, ideal for workplace use with the 1:1 A4 reproduction, but much like the Dx - another wireless portable reading device - not something you would desire to take on holiday, or put in your handbag or pocket for that matter, and it was on no account going to vie on price was it?
Subsequently now we have 2 outsized companies keen to go head to head, with the power of Amazon kindle, on all fronts. Sony in recent times increased the size of their annals at the Sony-Store and reduced the price point of their digitally transported books to equal that of Amazons and hopefully Barnes and Noble, who have at all times been in the identical ballpark price point wise, will equal them title for title also.
Nevertheless the leading news flash for clients has to be the shift away from proprietary file formats utilized by Sony corp. in the initial days and still utilized by the Kindle now. To explain the state of affairs I will apply Amazon as an example, bear in mind this is still the situation with the Kindle so it makes it more clear.
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