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Originally Posted by eGeezer
I rather suspect they announced the Nook this far ahead of time to freeze people who are just starting to shop from moving ahead with a purchase of some other device until the Nook is actually available. (Kinda like some world-dominating software company announcing an OS release two years ahead of time because another company is going to announce THEIRs in a month.)
More than likely, the limited units they had for the press release are the only functional units, and the total lack of information is because there isn't any information to drip.
Fact of the matter, the slow answers we did get probably isn't deliberate snowballing by BN. I can visualize the questions coming in and the BN folk looking at each other with wide eyes, saying "Wow, I never thought of THAT one. I wonder if we can do it that way."
Of course, I'm just making this all up, but it sure would explain a lot.
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I think that's dangerously close to the truth.
A shame, really, because they've shot themselves in the foot if it really is as great as they've initially pitched it. But with no one actually using/seeing it, their customer service people haven't a clue for how to answer 90% of the inquiries on these boards. And the ebook prices are freezing most who would have pre-ordered it, until they calculate that they'll spend incrementally another Nook a year in the price differential in ebooks between B&N and Amazon.