Awwww man!!! That is the same crap they pulled with the nookcolor. sony does offer landscape on the 350 and 650, but it not a good implementation as it repeats the text in the middle of each page--that is, sony didn't make landscape mode completely independent of portrait mode as their landscape mode merely halves each page of portrait mode rather than independently reflowing the text. I hate that on my 350 and was hoping the new Nook would do it right.

EDIT: Where did you see "portrait only"? I looked over the B&N website and didn't see this, though I could have easily read over it without seeing it.