Comments on: E-Reader vs. E-Reader: Spring Design Sues Barnes & Noble http://technologizer.com/2009/11/02/e-reader-vs-e-reader-spring-design-sues-barnes-noble/ Reviews, News, and Opinion About Personal Technology by Harry McCracken & Friends Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:01:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: amazon filler http://technologizer.com/2009/11/02/e-reader-vs-e-reader-spring-design-sues-barnes-noble/comment-page-1/#comment-33728 Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:33:23 +0000 http://technologizer.com/?p=19297#comment-33728 Although the Nook appears on the outside to be a superior reader to the Kindle, B&N missed a big sales opportunity by not pricing this thing at $239.
Sometimes customers never look beyond the initial price and for $20 they could have added a whole bunch of new accounts.

Kindle -> you can read PDFs that have foreign languages. For kindle format books – French is supported. Chinese isn’t.Foreign language dictionaries aren’t.There is a Kindle font hack that allows unicode fonts and hence foreign languages.

]]> By: John http://technologizer.com/2009/11/02/e-reader-vs-e-reader-spring-design-sues-barnes-noble/comment-page-1/#comment-29221 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:42:39 +0000 http://technologizer.com/?p=19297#comment-29221 It would seem then that even though Nook is cool, or cooler than Kindle, there is some danger in getting it and end up not being able to use it if things don’t go well for BN.

Perhaps Kindle is still a more mature and proven choice, at least for now.

I was really hoping for Nook to take off though, and still hope that’s the case. After all, the reason I hesitate to get a Kindle is due to the closed eco-system of the Kindle system, which makes Amazon the gatekeeper in that case. My understanding is that such is not the case with BN’s Nook.

The irony is that Amazon does have an awesome MP3 store that is DRM-free with a large selection and often good prices. Yet that is a completely open format, which is preferrable.

On the note about Amazon, I recently came across an interesting table that details the discounts on Amazon.

It is at http://www.uberi.com

Maybe you will find it useful too. While you are there, I would suggest checking out the “Amazon Filler Item” among other things there when you get a chance. It’s quite amusing.

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