Nook vs Kindle
Isn’t the world of Technology great. Amazon has been setting the world on fire with the Kindle brand. They had the original Kindle then the ultra successful Kindle 2 dropped last year. Now we have the Kindle DX while a great eReader is primarily aimed at the University Market with the ability to view and read college text books.
Along comes the new player in the game and thats Barnes and Noble. Of course they want to compete against the Kindle. Amazon set the bar high they provided an easy way to gain access to 1,000’s of books on demand through Whisper sync, do that over a fast transparent 3G network (Verizon) and naturally Amazon had a hit on their hands.
I question a few of the moves by Barnes and Noble, notably they do not have any background in Electronics sales like Amazon. They are primarily a brick and mortar store with an online website. Amazon has no brick and mortar equivalent. It is not quite known how B&N will go about selling the Nook (Either through the B&N Stores or through the website exclusively). Plus they chose to partner with AT&T for its 3G network, which if you are an iPhone or technology fan you know there is big time problems with the data side of that network. Now the Nook will not be making calls and will only rely on the AT&T Network to download books which are probably not the hugest files in world, but what if I live in an area not served by the 3G network of AT&T do I have to rely on Edge service?
And finally I am not sure what is going to happen with the Lawsuit by Spring Designs against B&N. Perhaps Nook will release and it will be a viable competitor to Amazon’s Kindle 2. This would be great as competition breeds innovation. I look forward to Amazon’s next chess move. What do you guys think?
