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Apart from potentially defective devices, the gestures work just fine for me and the other hundreds of thousands users who aren't claiming about the swiping. If you don't get the swiping to work always (nearly 100%), your nook is defective or there's something totally wrong the way you use it.
1. It's a capacitive touchscreen. This type of touchscreen needs (electroconductive) skin contact to the case for proper operation. Place an iPhone on a table and try to use the touchscreen without contact to the case. Will it work as usual? No.
2. There's an reason B&N called the gesture "swipe". You need to flick. Don't try to drag the page!
3. B&N has done a good job to place strong limits on the range of valid gestures. A capacitive touchscreen is extremely sensitive. Without these strong limits people would claim they get noumerous faulty activations. And of course it would not be possible to hold the nook in the bottom area, placing the thumb on the touchscreen.
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