{"id":2681,"date":"2009-10-23T20:58:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T03:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2009-10-23T21:00:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T04:00:28","slug":"barnes-noble-ereader-device-appears-might-blow-the-kindle-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/10\/23\/barnes-noble-ereader-device-appears-might-blow-the-kindle-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnes & Noble eReader Device Might Blow the Kindle Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"B&Nereader\"Amazon’s Kindle<\/em> could be headed for the woodpile.\u00a0 The new Barnes & Nobel ereader device<\/a> is coming at the end of November.<\/p>\n

The new device is called the nook.<\/em> Like book nook, I guess.\u00a0 But this thing has a color touch screen virtual keypad like an iPhone<\/em> and it displays book pages on an eye-friendly E ink display.\u00a0 It appears to be sleek and well-designed.\u00a0 It will also allow ebook owners to lend their ebooks to other people who own Nook devices for up to 14 days.\u00a0 That’s a big deal.<\/p>\n

Another thing it has going for it is support for formats like ePub, eReader, PDF, MP3, JPG, PNG and BMP files.\u00a0 One article compared this device to Amazon’s by saying it was like the internet compared to Amazon’s AOL.\u00a0 It has free 3G and<\/em> Wi-Fi connectivity.<\/p>\n

After the ongoing grotesque behavior by Amazon and its apparent lack of concern for owners’ rights it won’t take much for Barnes & Noble to turn Amazon’s ugly duckling of a closed-system ereader into a bad joke.<\/p>\n

I never took the plunge to buy a Kindle from Amazon because I don’t trust their intentions.\u00a0 I have no hesitation to run out and buy the Barnes & Noble device as soon as it comes out in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amazon’s Kindle could be headed for the woodpile.\u00a0 The new Barnes & Nobel ereader device is coming at the end of November. The new device is called the nook. Like book nook, I guess.\u00a0 But this thing has a color touch screen virtual keypad like an iPhone and it displays book pages on an eye-friendly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[716,717,222,714,715],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-barnes-noble","tag-e-ink","tag-ebook","tag-ereader","tag-nook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t