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Originally Posted by detayls
A Nook (simple touch) is very obviously a reader and not much else. I like that.
Equally obviously the hacker types will have a field day but nowhere near my reader.
To each his own.
I can't help wondering how much the hacker community costs the innocent readers in terms of the costs to B&N of "rooting" and making sure that everything still works. I bet the new Nook would only be $99 without all of the foolishness that the hackers add.  |
I'd take that bet. Unless you know for a fact that B&N was selling each nook at a loss (with the hopes of making it up on book sales) then B&N wouldn't care what the hackers do.
If nooks were sold as loss-leaders, then B&N would not have provided so many ways of sideloading non-nookbooks.
A list price of $139 now means a holiday sale of $99.