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Watch That Tiny $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action From now until the end of June, all Nooks will come with a free $US50 Barnes & Noble gift card. That’s not quite three books, last time I checked B&N’s prices (last week when I wanted to buy a book but it was $US18 in their digital store and cheaper elsewhere).
It was threatened, and thus now available. Hit up the BlackBerry App World to download the free Kindle app now – but only if you live in the US. And are happy paying up to a tenner to read a book on a 2.44-inch screen. [THINQ]
That Android ereader that John Hermann was getting excited about a couple of days ago, goes by the name of Spring Design Alex, I believe.
Foxit has created the eSlick Store to accompany its adorably inexpensive eSlick reader. But why?
While French President Sarkozy didn’t namecheck Google directly, he more than alluded to them, claiming that their aim of scanning out of copyright books and putting them online will damage France’s own book digitisation plan.
Sony’s pulling a switcheroo on its customers, rebranding its “eBook Store” as “Reader Store” (see what they did there? Err…) but more importantly, changing formats from BBeB to EPUB. This is a surprising step forward for the proprietary-loving Sony.
Nook pre-orders have been sold out since November 20th, and orders placed after that have been subject to oft-delayed ship dates. Now B&N says that these backordered Nooks won’t ship until January 11th, even later than reported this morning.
I’m convinced Barnes & Noble has no idea what the hell they’re doing. After looking like they were gonna be late, then “oops, we sold out,” now Barnes & Noble says that at minimum, they won’t have Nooks—even to demo—in actual retail stores until Dec. 7 at the earliest, in order to fill pre-order demand. This is only gonna get more ridiculous, just watch. [WSJ]
