The company also lowered the price on the Nook Color, which previously cost $249, to $199. This competes directly with Amazon’s Kindle Fire device. Previously $139, the Nook Touch is now $99, which competes with the Kindle Touch’s ad supported version. The Nook, however, does not have ads.
http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/
Tough decision to make.
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Monday, November 7, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Amazon Kindle Tablet
Based on this article, we know quite a bit more what to expect. And I expect, sadly, I suppose, that it will blow the doors off the Nook Color.
Amazon Kindle Tablet
Why do I say that? The size will be the same, touch screen, running an Android OS that Amazon has its way with. The price will be the same $250. So what's the big deal? Amazon is going to promote it like mad and offer a year's subscription to Amazon Prime which is about $80 for the year. I've done Prime and I was very positive about it. You get free streaming video. Hello, if I got that on my Nook I'd be thrilled. So that's essentially $100 off.
What Amazon does well they do very well. You purchase something and they get it right to you. Last week during the hurricane, I bought an emergency radio and it came 2 days later. A month ago I bought a can of chestnut puree. Why buy that from a bookstore? Because the price was less. The can was more expensive, but the shipping--because of the Amazon Prime Trial--was free. I bought the macro lens and returned it with no emotional upset.
To have access to shopping from your reader, streaming video, music and I'm sure other things not yet revealed will make me consider selling the Nook and buying a Kindle Tab.
What will this do to Christmas book sales, kiddies?
Online retail giant Amazon has hinted that it plans to offer its own tablet computer running Google's Android operating system, perhaps as early as October. The research firm Forrester said recently that it expects Amazon to sell 3 million to 5 million tablets in the fourth quarter this year if it can keep up with the demand.
The tablet seems smartly designed to enhance Amazon’s “razor and blades” strategy, which creates a virtuous, reinforcing link between Amazon’s reading device and content. It should be attractive to e-reader buyers. It might well recapture the e-reader device leadership position from the Nook, and perhaps lessen the lost of e-reader-focused buyers to the iPad. And the bundled Amazon Prime membership should enhance Amazon’s larger retail relationship with its tablet owners.
All in all, the Kindle tablet seems well-positioned to strengthen Amazon’s market position.
Everything Amazon does is to strengthen their position so we know this is going to create waves.
AFAIC, it's expensive. We need a great reader for under $100. We need a reader a kid can forget on the bus and no one loses sleep over it. After all, this economy is not great. People are in financial difficulty even when there are still people employed at great salaries not realizing millions of people are unable to find a job.
Also AFAIC I'm rather have a Samsung Galaxy but that really is too expensive. I can shop at Amazon with my Nook.
But I think Santa's elves are building and designing these gadgets. My fingers are too big for the little pretend buttons. So someone should consider humans are using these things and they don't have a stylus in hand. That would be an interesting thing though, a retractable stylus built in...
Amazon Kindle Tablet
Why do I say that? The size will be the same, touch screen, running an Android OS that Amazon has its way with. The price will be the same $250. So what's the big deal? Amazon is going to promote it like mad and offer a year's subscription to Amazon Prime which is about $80 for the year. I've done Prime and I was very positive about it. You get free streaming video. Hello, if I got that on my Nook I'd be thrilled. So that's essentially $100 off.
What Amazon does well they do very well. You purchase something and they get it right to you. Last week during the hurricane, I bought an emergency radio and it came 2 days later. A month ago I bought a can of chestnut puree. Why buy that from a bookstore? Because the price was less. The can was more expensive, but the shipping--because of the Amazon Prime Trial--was free. I bought the macro lens and returned it with no emotional upset.
To have access to shopping from your reader, streaming video, music and I'm sure other things not yet revealed will make me consider selling the Nook and buying a Kindle Tab.
What will this do to Christmas book sales, kiddies?
Online retail giant Amazon has hinted that it plans to offer its own tablet computer running Google's Android operating system, perhaps as early as October. The research firm Forrester said recently that it expects Amazon to sell 3 million to 5 million tablets in the fourth quarter this year if it can keep up with the demand.
The tablet seems smartly designed to enhance Amazon’s “razor and blades” strategy, which creates a virtuous, reinforcing link between Amazon’s reading device and content. It should be attractive to e-reader buyers. It might well recapture the e-reader device leadership position from the Nook, and perhaps lessen the lost of e-reader-focused buyers to the iPad. And the bundled Amazon Prime membership should enhance Amazon’s larger retail relationship with its tablet owners.
All in all, the Kindle tablet seems well-positioned to strengthen Amazon’s market position.
Everything Amazon does is to strengthen their position so we know this is going to create waves.
AFAIC, it's expensive. We need a great reader for under $100. We need a reader a kid can forget on the bus and no one loses sleep over it. After all, this economy is not great. People are in financial difficulty even when there are still people employed at great salaries not realizing millions of people are unable to find a job.
Also AFAIC I'm rather have a Samsung Galaxy but that really is too expensive. I can shop at Amazon with my Nook.
But I think Santa's elves are building and designing these gadgets. My fingers are too big for the little pretend buttons. So someone should consider humans are using these things and they don't have a stylus in hand. That would be an interesting thing though, a retractable stylus built in...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Rooting The Nook
I've had the micro SD card for about 2 months waiting for Autonooter 4 to be released. As far as I can tell that should be early next week because I just bought--from Amazon--a pre-loaded card which enables you to boot from that card. You're not rooting the Nook. If you take the card out of the slot, it's your same old comfy Nook. Put the card in, and you have your Android.
The only reason for me to do this is because Amazon has more books than B&N, and usually cheaper. I don't need a tablet computer--as far as I know. Maybe I do. What's it for? I want the Android app that goes to Kindle marketplace.
Next thing that's bound to happen is Bezos releases a color touch screen Kindle in Nov. for $175.
As I was driving myself absolutely bonkers with all this...hey, I was prepared this morning to do a manual root but half the files I needed aren't available...I started to wonder about my new book and where I should be going with it. I still don't know in a sense although I have the endpoint pretty well figured. I would rather be able to surprise myself along the way. I would rather make big choices.
Joe Konrath has an interesting piece up over the last 24 hrs. The link to his blog is on the right side of the page here. I'm not 100% thinking about this topic with everything else on my mind but the whole issue of the drunk troll reviews comes up again. He says he was amused but he doesn't sound amused. He actually sounds a lot more angry than I've allowed myself to be. I don't think there's anything to be done about it, it's more a cultural issue. This is the way people behave on the internet.
It's sort of a literary wilding. I don't get anywhere near the readership/traffic/denouncements as Joe. I get a couple bad reviews and I'm spitting nails. He got 139. I read through a bunch and to be honest, Joe's thing is not my thing and I wouldn't read it for entertainment knowing that. But I wouldn't say anything either. I wouldn't go to the page and see 139 1 star reviews and say "I really have to add my reaction." It's overkill already. So what made people numbers 25-139 feel compelled to say how awful this story was for them?
I think I'm going to go weed the garden instead of thinking about drunk on power trolls.
Google Nook2Android if you're interested in that route.
The only reason for me to do this is because Amazon has more books than B&N, and usually cheaper. I don't need a tablet computer--as far as I know. Maybe I do. What's it for? I want the Android app that goes to Kindle marketplace.
Next thing that's bound to happen is Bezos releases a color touch screen Kindle in Nov. for $175.
As I was driving myself absolutely bonkers with all this...hey, I was prepared this morning to do a manual root but half the files I needed aren't available...I started to wonder about my new book and where I should be going with it. I still don't know in a sense although I have the endpoint pretty well figured. I would rather be able to surprise myself along the way. I would rather make big choices.
Joe Konrath has an interesting piece up over the last 24 hrs. The link to his blog is on the right side of the page here. I'm not 100% thinking about this topic with everything else on my mind but the whole issue of the drunk troll reviews comes up again. He says he was amused but he doesn't sound amused. He actually sounds a lot more angry than I've allowed myself to be. I don't think there's anything to be done about it, it's more a cultural issue. This is the way people behave on the internet.
It's sort of a literary wilding. I don't get anywhere near the readership/traffic/denouncements as Joe. I get a couple bad reviews and I'm spitting nails. He got 139. I read through a bunch and to be honest, Joe's thing is not my thing and I wouldn't read it for entertainment knowing that. But I wouldn't say anything either. I wouldn't go to the page and see 139 1 star reviews and say "I really have to add my reaction." It's overkill already. So what made people numbers 25-139 feel compelled to say how awful this story was for them?
I think I'm going to go weed the garden instead of thinking about drunk on power trolls.
Google Nook2Android if you're interested in that route.
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