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schmiddi says...
Nov 21, 2009

Barnes & Noble (BKS) Runs Out Of E-Readers: Amazon (AMZN) Stands Alone – 24/7 Wall St.

Now, Barnes & Noble (NYSE:BKS) has come up short on the inventory of units for its device–the Nook. The book retailer chain said “Preorders have exceeded our expectations.”

Barnes & Noble and Sony came into the e-reader market to challenge the extremely successful Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle which has established a large enough market to prove the devices are popular. Several research firms say that they expect e-reader sales to hit three million this holiday season. Amazon is the only competitor in the field which has effectively managed its inventory. That leaves Barnes & Noble and Sony with little more than the embarrasement of botched launches.

via 247wallst.com

reading stories like these just make me wonder who is paying people like douglas mcintyre ... but it certainly explains why they don't allow comments on their site.

so more or less what doug says is that b&n sucks because it's nook is selling like hot cakes ... and he praises amazon because the kindle is sitting idle on store (at least virtual ones) shelfs. yes the nook won't be shipping before christmas, but that is only for those people that haven't ordered one yet. those that have will get theirs before christmas ... and there seem to be so many of them that is by far outstripped the plans of b&n which very likely are based on sales forecasts for ebooks like the one cited by doug.
in the past the business press has been fairly pessimistic for ebook readers and their sales potential. so now that one company is having success in selling one it gets dinged for underestimating the market potential.
i am sorry, but what doug is missing here is a bigger story and that is that ebook readers are becoming much more popular than most people following the space have thought so far. at least that is what this tells me.

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LA Dj: Dj Download says...
Oct 28, 2009

Barnes & Noble Montclair Ca is my favorite!

Off to Barnes & Noble on my regular hump day visit next to the Montclair Plaza before Halloween. Borders bookstore closes 9pm. They Suck.

via Ping.fm

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Dead Simple says...
Oct 24, 2009

China’s E-book Opportunity

E-Book readers should be released in China as soon as possible. While
in the West people are weighing up the benefits of e-books compared to
more traditional books, here in China people have abandoned book long
ago.

With the release of the Nook by Barnes and Noble in the USA and
Amazon’s Kindle being on the market for nearly 2 years in the USA and
only recently released internationally Western companies are missing a
huge opportunity to sell to a market that is dying for a comfortable
e-book reader to replace their mobile phone or Sony PSP.

In case you are wondering whether I miss wrote mobile phone or Sony
PSP you will be mistaken. All over the country people are actually
staring into tiny 2-3 inch screens reading the latest installment of
their latest novel. The only time I see someone reading a book is when
I see foreigners reading.

China is going through a literary renaissance with the Internet
providing the means for hundreds of thousands of writers a means of
publishing their works without the pain of looking for a publisher and
having to go through China’s notorious censorship. The three main
websites Qidian, Hongxiutianxiang and Jinjiang have about 700,000
writers. Qidian has 300 million page visits per day.

At the moment half a novel is free with the rest of the novel costing
a couple of cents per 1000 Chinese characters. The website usually
pays about 30-50% to the author. This might seem small but Qidian has
10 authors on a million yuan a year. With both the Kindle and Nook
both having wifi and some flavour of mobile data connection a player
could be made that takes advantage of this business model.
Relationships could be made with these websites that could create a
seamless experience. At the moment readers are copy and pasting the
novel onto a text file then transferring onto their mobile phones to
read onto the way to work. A seamless enjoyable experience could make
it far easier and encourage more reading.

Amazon, which already has a presence in China could either create a
partnership with one of the existing sites. This would be far easier
than going it alone but not impossible. A cheaper version of the
Kindle could be released with basic functionality such as bookmarks,
search and the ability to download and transfer from a computer. The
key is to make the experience easier and more enjoyable than it
already is.

China Mobile, the biggest mobile operator in the world for customers,
is working towards to releasing its own e-book reader. If it is priced
well I don’t doubt it doing well. However at the moment nothing is
out. All that is left is a gaping opportunity waiting to be filled.

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georgedearing says...
Oct 20, 2009

Gizmodo Has A Hands-On With Barnes & Noble's Nook

via gizmodo.com

It appears the Nook is getting good reviews...there's obviously plenty of room in the e-reader market for those not named Kindle.

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Jerry says...
Oct 20, 2009

Nook eReader: how Amazon got out-Amazon'd!

via barnesandnoble.com

Amazon has been eating Barne's & Noble's lunch for almost a decade, now. B&N have finally taken off the gloves. (Excuse the mixing of metaphors.)

How? With Barnes & Noble's Nook, an eBook reader/device. These guys did a great job on this product. It's like an iPhone and a Kindle mated and had an offspring. Click the link above to read all the details.

Killer feature: you can lend an eBook to someone! Plus: wifi, try it in a store (after Nov 30), touch-screen navigation panel...more on the site.

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georgedearing says...
Oct 19, 2009

Barnes & Noble 'Nook' e-reader comes out Tuesday for $259
via engadget.com

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Justin says...
Oct 14, 2009

The Plot Thickens: Barnes & Noble Teams with Google Android for eReader

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Gizmodo has postedwhat it says are photos and details of the e-book reader that Barnes & Noble is reportedly getting ready to release. 

Pictures have emerged of what is allegedly the Barnes & Noble eReaderdevice slated to be available next month in time for the holiday season. Barnes & Noble's entry into the eReader fray adds another major player to the mix-- and one that has its own book distribution to compete with Amazon and the Kindle.

Reliable details about the upcoming device are scarce, but there is no shortage of speculation about what Barnes & Noble will bring to the mix. The as-yet un-named device will be built on the Google Android operating system. It will have wireless connectivity. It will have a touch screen. It will cost less than a comparable Amazon Kindle. Well...maybe...

(via @pcworld) read more - http://j.mp/2QyKfT

 

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georgedearing says...
Oct 09, 2009

Barnes & Noble's Kindle Strategy

via fastcompany.com

"Speaking at CTIA a B&N spokesman, Daniel Joresson, spilled the beans--a color Plastic Logic device is due in Spring 2010. It's possibly going to follow a grayscale version of the device, which is strongly rumored to arrive before the end of the year, and it tallies with text on Plastic Logic's own Web site which notes a paperback-sized color display is "around the corner."

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K says...
Aug 04, 2009

Book Review: Catching the Big Fish - Lynch

 

Tonight I bought and devoured David Lynch's Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Cousciousness, and Creativity. I'm currently going through an uber self-help phase where I'm addictively buying books on ways to fix my brain. I've mentioned before that I typically spend 30 minutes a day just chillin out on the couch to music, and I've lately realized this is sort of wasteful.

I've not been particularly interested in meditation for very long. I'd never even attempted it until one of my classes was asked to by our professor. We spent the entire class hour in silence, lights low, meditating. He gave instructions for one of the simplest forms of meditation, right after he gave a lengthy explanation of how he attributes his daily meditations to saving his life. He's susceptible to strokes, has had, I believe, two... one of which was particularly severe, but he managed to walk away mostly fine. I just loved his story and his dedication to meditation, thought, "hey that's what I need in my life," and then never got around to it.

So, I did what I normally do. I bought some books about it.

Among those books is Lynch's little gem. His book was an impulse buy, found in the last moment after I wandered by the psychology section at Barnes & Noble. His name is in bright white across the front cover, so it immediately caught my eye. Read the back, thought, "well alright then" and bought it. For about 12 bucks, it was worth it.

The book centers around how Lynch uses Trancendental Meditation to find his own inner happiness and relieve stress. The book is unique in that he explores these ideas by focusing on his career as a filmmaker. He often refers to his films, famous friends, and even the type of camera he uses to map out the effects of his meditation.

What I just adore about this book is that it reveals Lynch for the person he actually is. I don't consider myself particularly schooled in Lynch films, but I've seen Eraserhead and The Elephant Man, along with a dvd of some of his short films. And honestly, his works creep me the fuck out more than anything else. The weird shapes and crazy actors and loud music and aaaahhh. I can't watch a lot of his things alone. The short film dvd was forced on me, too, by an ex-boyfriend who thought Lynch was amazingly cool in his strangeness. He insisted on watching the dvd in complete dark in my room. Made the whole experience way creepier, and I remember digging my head into my pillows to muffle the creeptastic music coming from the speakers. But Lynch explains that "you don't have to be suffering to show suffering," and that he believes that artists who are depressed aren't able to use their creativity to the fullest because they're bogged down. (He even uses Van Gogh to refute any would be objections, saying that he supposed the only time Van Gogh was ever happy was when he was painting, and that he could have been more incredible without all the depressive weights.)

Anyway. The real Lynch isn't so much like this. He's a normal dude who wants world peace and likes to be nice to people. But his words of wisdom are meaningful because he wasn't always this way. He even decribes a time when he "didn't want to hear stories about what was going on, because hearing these things felt like dying."

I've seen Lynch as this type of dude for a while now, mostly after I stumbled onto his website, which he maintains. I particularly love his weather updates. They're just that... weather updates. Nothing else. But I watch them.

Going back to the book, I mostly love how Lynch keeps things entertaining with his more personal stories of his everyday life, as when he explains that thinking in a diner is always a safe thing to do, as "you can have your coffee or your milk shake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner." Or when he says that decaying animal corpses are lovely because of all the textures. (Genius.)

In particular, though, one of my favorite passages involves Lynch describing the creative process for film making with other people. Basically, he says that one person comes to you with a lot of props for a scene. Then you start using words to describe what kinds of props you really wanted. Then the person comes back with things that are closer to that ideal. So you explain again. And then the prop guy comes back with things that are perfect. I love this testament to words and language. We shape our ideas, our creativity, by talking, by working, by continuing to evolve and expand until we're at the right conclusion. And we can do this through one another.

Knowing that meditation has affected Lynch's life so positively is encouragement to beginner me. He writes that it helps "you become more and more you" which is what I'm aiming for. I like myself just fine, but I don't like the stress that affects me. Shedding these weights should help me reveal the person I am at my fullest potential.

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georgedearing says...
Jul 22, 2009

Plastic Logic Picks AT&T For Kindle Killer [Silicon Alley Insider]

via businessinsider.com

Ok, the Kindle Killer headline got me. There's an interesting battle heating up in the eBook arena. I really wasn't paying too much attention until Barnes & Noble's eBookstore launch and the arrival of Plastic Logic. Classic case of competition driving innovation. Let the games continue ;)
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"Plastic Logic's reader, which will go on sale in the beginnning of 2010, will be bigger than the Kindle, and have a touch screen. Unlike the Kindle, the devices will be able to access wi-fi hotspots."

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