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Originally Posted by chas0039
As I said over at the Nook forum, I am beginning to think that the stripped down Nook is more in response to bad financial circumstances at B&N as opposed to any serious marketing plan to threaten Amazon. The list of features they took off is long (no more 3G, no MP3, no landscape mode, no user replaceable battery, no web browser, no text sizing), and they missed the $99 price point. I think they are working on looking good to a corporate buyer.
Will wait and see.
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I wouldn't call the Nook stripped down. If you mean stripped down as cost savings, the most expensive aspects of it were built up or added. Most of the features they removed turned out to be pointless for most consumers, though the absence of a 3G model surprises me a bit. I don't think they missed a price point. $140 seems to be fairly accurate for the time being. May be a while til $99 is the ereader price point in this market.