Okay, I was curious to see how much worse B&N could've made Nook.com and, well...
It's not as bad as the lead standard, the S&S crashsite.
It is, however, almost as slow. Lots of extra clicks to get anywhere. And since it's slow...
But it didn't crash. Gotta count for something, right?
Of course, being B&N, the BPH new releases wallpaper the ebook home page and front and center, literally is Patterson's "It's not really an anti Bezos screed, really!" THE STORE.
With a review rating of 2.5 stars.
I had to dig through three clicks to find out the big brand release has only 5 reviews. The only useful one panned the ending.
At Amazon the rating is slightly lower (no shock) at 2 stars. Only 24 revews so the 5 reviews at Nook are actually more than one would expect from their ebook share.
Just one book but I sort of expected a noticeably better reception from Nook stalwarts.
Anyway, yup, the site is still marginal.
But it didn't lock up or crash, which it used to do.
Stability improvements are always good, right?