06-22-2013, 11:08 AM | #61 |
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There are too many good players in the fray now: Google Nexus, Acer, Galaxy, 2 ipad versions, kobo, Sony and not to mention Amazons dominance. This is too big of a hurdle for a book seller. I sold my nook ereaders and bought the Kindle PW
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06-22-2013, 12:50 PM | #62 |
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The article, as it is now entitled, suggests it is speculation. I believe it was not entitled like this originally, if I recall correctly, the original article stated that BN was getting out of the hardware business. That's very different from the current article, and hence the comments on this thread.
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I think it's fair to speculate on something like this, especially since there has been a lot of negative news about B&N and the Nook over the last year or so. The problem is presenting speculation as facts or certainties. I think the problem with this perception arose out of the title the OP chose -- "Nook clearly headed for the dumpster" when it's uncertain what will happen to the Nook brand and B&N's e-book business.
Using a word like "clearly" when the fate of B&N is actually pretty "cloudy" is going overboard. But then I notice the OP likes to speak in absolutes -- ie, saying that "Caecilia is the best font for eInk. No question." Personallly, I would never use Caecilia as my everyday font for reading ebooks. The ascenders are too short relative to the font's mean line, resulting in a sort of short, squat appearance. It is also widely known that a large differentiation between the ascender and mean line makes reading easier for most people. My own favorites are Adobe Garamond and Georgia. At any rate, fonts are a very personal choice -- the same way colors are -- so to say one font is the "best" for eInk is going quite overboard. Getting back to B&N, here is what TechCrunch said on May 8th: Quote:
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I have 2 tablets already (google and apple) so I'm not interested in the Nook HD\+ but now that they have opened it up to the google play store it becomes more future proof. |
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In addition, I think it is as accurate. There is a lot of evidence to suggest the title's veracity, but that is by the by. |
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06-23-2013, 12:37 PM | #66 | |
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06-23-2013, 06:38 PM | #67 | |
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The thread is meant to warn off the innocent...
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People often confuse hardware and software. The Nook hardware, with an early exception, has always been good to great. On the other hand the various User Interface designs that have been perpetrated on the poor Nook hardware buyers have been quite literally atrocious. The Simple touch is well done from a UI perspective but the color devices are all suffering from severe schizophrenia. Why did they not settle on one interface? If I had to speculate I would guess multiple software teams and a not-invented-here syndrome. They were also told to emphasize the "not just an eReader" features, which was wrong. People buying a Nook were attracted by the eBooks, sucked in by the tablet features and then thoroughly baffled. The other terrifying thing is that Microsoft is lurking in the wings with a User Interface design department that inflicted the Windows 8, forget the Start button, approach. All we can say for sure is that the tablet eReader industry is in flux and that a good design, the current Kindle Paperwhite is totally kicking butt. Sorry to be partisan here. I have or have had them all and I only use one unit for reading books. |
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06-24-2013, 07:55 AM | #68 |
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I agree, I read on my Nook in the Kindle app, and my main ereader is a Kindle Paperwhite.
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I had gotten the Nook HD mainly for its tablet-like qualities because I didn't think that I'd like reading on the LED screen for extended periods of time since my eyes get tired when I do so on my laptop, but to my surprise, I'm not really having any problems with that.
I think it's because I am using the Cool Reader app as my preferred reading app and I've got the background color set to a very pale green-gray color that is more soothing to my eyesight than stark white. I also adjust the brightness intensity depending on the ambient light and I've found that I can read for hours on it. The stock Nook, Google and Kindle readers have way fewer adjustment options to them than the Cool Reader does; I'd have thought that they would have offered more personalization than they do. |
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Now nobody has posted anything conclusive or even speculative enough to suggest that B&N is doing away with the hardware side of business. SO everything suggesting they are doing so is just speculation. |
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I'm not speaking about the software, just the hardware. Going only on hardware, the Kobo Aura HD is better then the Kindle PW. Kobo's downfall is the software. To be honest, that's the Kindle's downfall too. Amazon has built in some defaults that cannot (other then jailbreaking and then patching) that (IMHO) I find not a good way to do things.
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Speculate with this...
Barnes and Noble to exit the hardware business...
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/...rs-build-nooks |
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