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Amazon does not include its public domain e-books in its count, Barnes and Nobles does. If you add in the public domain books and all the duplicate versions of the public domain books you can get BN to 2 million books and Amazon would have a much higher total. BN has narrowed the gap but still has a smaller selection then Amazon.
Amazon cannot charge less then BN for most e-books on the bestseller list because they are from the publishing houses that make up the Big 6 and are all involved with Agency Pricing which means they set the price and discounts are not allowed. So the price is the same from Amazon, to Sony, to B&N, to Kobo.
Ergonomics are a matter of personal opion, some folks prefer the feel of the Nook others the Kindle others the Sony others the Kobo.
And while there are differences, like the ones you mentioned, for the average buyer they do not matter. If someone is looking for an e-reader with text to speech they are likely to ask for it and then people will happily point to the Kindle. Since most people do not use Text to Speech or the audio player or the memory card slots or the web browser it is not always necessary to mention them. Especially when the OP includes a list of things they don't care about that includes: book file format, 3G, advertising,
expandable memory, games, color screen, Android (I have an Android phone for all things 'droid). That makes me think that they don't care about anything but reading so why bother going into them.
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