[roebeet]

I know there's a few threads on the library change yesterday, but creating a new one only because I feel that this change is so important to the ongoing e-reader wars. At least here in the US, this change has, at least in my opinion, put the final nail in the coffin for the competition.

I am a Kindle 3 owner. But library loans were such a deficiency that my local B&N salesperson would actually bring it up in her sales pitch for the Nook (and rightfully so). And it was something that always made me consider an alternative device, and I even kept my SONY PRS-300 for this purpose. I don't see how B&N, Kobo and the rest of them are going to maneuver around this recent change.

And while I'm very happy for this because I'm a Kindle owner, I'm also concerned because this continues Amazon's dominance over the market. I don't want them to be a monopoly, I want them to have competition. That's because competition is always a good thing for consumers, because it keeps prices low - if the Nook / SONY / Kobo readers eventually die off because of lack of sales, that's a bad thing.

I know this is a Kindle thread, but how do you feel? Do you think that this is a major turning point in the ereader wars? And is there anything that the Nook still offers (other than a touch screen) that the Kindle does not?