Thread: Why Barnes & Noble is Selling Rugs
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Old 10-25-2011, 06:55 PM   #18
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I still want to know why they're not selling NC2s.
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You noticed that too.

My guess is that they are back in design trying to meet the Amazon challenge with Fire. Amazon perhaps thought they were getting the jump on B&N, but my thought is they should have waited and let B&N jump in first.

If B&N is smart, they will come out with all the things that Amazon left out.

SD card support
USB2.0 (full support)
Full Android from the get go.
And then of course a good reader fully coordinated with the B&N store.
AND the wonderful READER PHYSICAL PAGE BUTTONS.

And finally allow the addition of things like
GPS,
Ability to hook in a 3G dongle, something like Archos has for their foreign Generation 9 tablets.

You should be able to configure the tablet or add to it just like Dell lets you.

Frankly, as an author, as an eReader user and as an engineer, I believe that what B&N does on the above will make or break their future.

Let the folks choose from a less than $200 eReader able to be upgraded to something like $250 or $300 tablet that can be added on if they wish to.

I will never buy a Fire, but something like I described above might make a sale with me.
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