Barnes & Noble press conference today – TeleRead will be there
By Paul Biba
Update, 4:07 p.m.: Plenty leaked out before the news conference. Learn about such features as friend-to-friend lending of books.
Today at 4 p.m. EST B&N will be holding its press conference in New York to announce its new reader. I’ll be there and if there is decent WiFi I’ll post on what I’ve seen (my kingdom for a wireless modem or a MiFi!). If not, then I’ll report when I get back home, which will probably be sometime around 9 to 10pm. A number of my techie friends are going absolutely bonkers about the possibility that the new unit will run Android. We’ll find out.
October 19th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
It’s the NOOK that’s out today, as in get a little nookie on the side. And new e-reader is being called Alex. What’s next: Cheryl, Marge and James. Hugh. Richard?
The Nook must get its name from sitting in a little nook of the room or house reading. But the sexual implications of nookie, ouch, the blogosphere is going to have a field day with this one!
In Japan, they call magazines they cover one subject like a book as “mooks”. In English of course.
This NOOK seems like it has a big fugure ahead of it, not least on the Leno show for off-color jokes. I can hear him now. “I bought a new Nook the other day from Barnes and Noble, and my wife accuses me of getting a little nookie on the side!”
O boy!
Love to see your final report, Paul. Break a leg! I almost wrote “Break a keg!”
Oops! That is what they call an atomic typo.
October 20th, 2009 at 7:54 am
That’s “Nook,” as in “Book Nook,” which is a common phrase, and the name of B&N’s online book club.
If the bologosphere goes silly over the word “nook,” it just proves that the blogosphere is populated with too many adolescent boys.
DCM
October 20th, 2009 at 8:42 am
Nook is probably PR-speak for: N-Nook, as in New-Book.
(And luddites would say for: Not-a-book.)
Of course, since a nook is also a small, tightly constrained spot, maybe its a disclaimer about their DRM.
October 20th, 2009 at 8:43 am
Nook is probably PR-speak for: N-Book, as in New-Book.
(And luddites would say for: Not-a-book.)
Of course, since a nook is also a small, tightly constrained spot, maybe its a disclaimer about their DRM.
October 20th, 2009 at 9:17 am
It’s the 20th – I see three posts from you this morning, but no follow-up on this.
October 20th, 2009 at 11:35 am
@Kate The conference is at 4PM EST