Thread: NOOK Color is a Tablet PC not a colored E-Ink Rreader!
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Old 10-28-2010, 11:48 PM   #75
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Originally Posted by BWhite View Post
So basically it is being released as a sort of 'confused device' (my term) and the only way the consumer will be able to judge his/her Nook Color experience is 12 months down the road when the B&N App Store infrastructure works for the individual Nook Color owner, or does not work. Then you will know if your Nook Color purchase was golden, or a turkey.
If Nook Color fails, B&N might well be the second Blockbuster in the making. I just can't believe they left the first gen Nook to fight with the third gen Kindle. Granted the software updates can improve the first Nook. It sure feels like a white flag on the e-ink front.

The book business is transforming from paper to e quickly. B&N is facing a formidable competitor in Amazon and an incredible destructive force in tablets (iPad/Android). If B&N makes a critical mistake at this stage, it's going to be fatal. 12 months sounds rights to judge if Nook Color is a brilliant move or a suicidal one.
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