October 21st, 2009
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David Rothman
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B&N on Nook: Android SDK possible—plus other goodies from news conf with B&N online-biz prez 
October 21st, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Can I read the books I purchased for my Kindle on the new Nook? Nope. Incompatible formats. Incompatible DRM.
This is the reason I’m currently only reading free or very cheap books on my Kindle. I’m not willing to pay money for an ebook unless I know that, in the future, I’ll be able to read it when I want and on the device that I want.
If ebooks cost two bucks each and could be read anywhere I’d buy a couple hundred a year. Now I’m not buying any.
October 21st, 2009 at 5:35 pm
C|Net has a feature-by-feature analysis of the Nook ereader:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13512_3-10379859-23.html?tag=newsFeaturedBlogArea.0
The reviewer sees most of the added features as benefitting B&N more than the reader.
Interesting take.