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“Over one million titles?” Yes, but well over half of those are junky Google scans of free, obscure, pre-1923 out-of-copyright books, filled with typos. (They’re also available for the Kindle, but Amazon doesn’t even count them).
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He (Pogue) isn't right on this. First, only a few of those titles are available for the Kindle (at least not without conversion and often manual extra work), second, even without the Google-ePubs B&N offers 120.000 titles (or so) more than Amazon. He just tries to turn a positive into a negative.
Also he is bashing the "loan e-books to friends"-feature. He just forgets that this feature is unique. B&N pionieers this feature - and obviously against the oppositions in the publishing houses. Shouldn't we (customers) appreciate B&Ns effort on this matter?
Seems like the nook-nuking (or B&N-bashing) has reached even the so called serious media.