4 Reasons why Barnes & Noble’s Nook is better than Kindle
Hello X’mas! The eBooks industry is abuzz with news of B&N’s own eReader called The Nook.
According to Codex Group, a consultant to the publishing industry, Amazon has sold about 945,000 Kindle units, compared to the 525,000 units of the Sony Reader. So Kindle still leads the race, but I won’t be surprised if The Nook isn’t already keeping Amazon exec’s up at night thinking about their own product and market. The obvious features that make the Nook better than Kindle are:
- Peer lending: The ability to e-lend books to friends and other Nook Readers. And the first eReader to allow digital lending between iphone, ipod, Blackberry, PC & MACs. (as long as the free B&N eReader software is downloaded on it) This is particularly interesting because it works like it would if you were to lend a physical book to someone: a Nook owner can “lend” their books only one at a time for a total of 14 days and they cannot read it on their own Nook while it is lent.
- Over 500,000 free books available. Plus, over a million books from B&N’s own library.
- Color & Touch Screen Navigation: For a generation so used to the iPhone & the iPod, this is a welcome feature.
- Free Wi-Fi in all Barnes & Noble location: Additionally, the Nook will offer exclusive content, promotions and discounts when in any B&N store and allow Nook owners to read any eBook for free when in a B&N store.
Content Decoded POV: For B&N to own the eBooks market, it needs to figure out how it is going to incorporate self-publishing on the The Nook. Kindle has already created a revenue-share model for bloggers and self published authors and The Nook’s strategy on this particular area is unclear. Digital Content is not platform-centric – so while in the physical world a book is a book and a blog is a blog – on an eReader, it is merely content.
That said, with its 777 stores in USA, B&N has a strong advantage over the Kindle as it plans to aggresively market and promote The Nook via its stores.
Also Jinal, BN’s ebook solution is incredibly extensible, allowing you to consume your content on your own terms: PC, your mobile and the nook device itself.
Ruben – Agreed ! I’d rather buy this instead of the Kindle.
I was skeptical about buying the Kindle after I read numerous articles detailing how owners had their books recalled (taken off the Kindle) with no notice. I also read stories of people’s Amazon.com accounts being banned, therefore all Amazon features on the Kindle (really just the Kindle Store) became non-functional. Alas, even after hearing that I could not put my own books (downloaded free of charge from other ebook sites) on the Kindle, I still purchased one as a birthday gift to myself. Wow, I was impressed and extremely upset when I recieved my Kindle. Impressed because of the amazing e-ink technology the screen is known for, the super-fast downloads of books off the Kindle Store, and many other little features. I was upset to learn that I CAN place my own books on the Kindle free of charge. Simply download Calibre (free download) to convert your books to .Mobi format. I know what you’re thinking: “why are you upset about that?” Well, I’m upset because all the stories and articles I read about not being able to place my own ebooks on the Kindle was one of the main reasons I contemplated not getting a Kindle, therefore wasting many days that I could have already had it.
I have over 250 books on my Kindle and have spent a combined total of $0.00! If you love to read and know where to find free ebooks (most classics can be acquired for free from the Kindle Store itself) then buy a Kindle. You won’t regret it. I now read things I would never touch at a bookstore simply because I got them for free. I read more now because I can comfortably place the Kindle on a table and not have to worry about holding pages down because the book’s sturdy spine closes automatically.
For all the people throwing temper-tantrums over Amazon’s recent recalls or whatever…learn to acquire books for free somewhere else and convert them. If you dont know how to do that, or you are simply stubborn at the idea of spending a few minutes on the computer converting books, then you should not buy a Kindle…in fact, if I were you, I would refrain from ever buying a piece of technology ever again.
Thank you Amazon for an amazing product that I will surely love for a very, very long time.
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i am taking tutorial about self-publishing because it is also a good way of making money.*“