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Originally Posted by Calenorn
Also, why is this new product called the Glowlight 3?
Think about it, there was a Simple Touch with Glowlight (1).
Then the white-body NOOK Glowlight (2)
Then the NOOK Glowlight Plus (3)
And now the NOOK Glowlight 3 (er... 4?).
It's a glimpse into B&N's thinking about this product. It's the "3" because the NOOK Glowlight Plus DOESN'T COUNT. It wasn't a "real" NOOK. It doesn't have the classic shape, form, and texture of the Simple Touch, while the others do.
The others all have the partitioned memory, too. The NST (w/o memory card) had about 250M, the whitey-lighty went about 500M, and now the Trey roughly 1000M. See the pattern? It doubles with each iteration. Ol' B&N probably feels like that's plenty.
Face it; there aren't enough of us hobbyists who care about side-loading to sway the sales numbers either way. The NOOK is an entry level downloading machine, designed to sell B&N digital product. Without doubling the price, we won't get everything.
FOR THE PRICE it's a pretty nice reader. And B&N has to keep the price down to get the walk-in customers to bite. But, let's be fair. Lots of people wanted the page turn buttons, and they came back.
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I think it is the Simple Touch with Glowlight that they are not figuring in the counting, since it had Simple Touch in its name, but your reasoning does make sense, since the Glowlight Plus was so 'different' from the others.