Nook is a hit, reports Barnes and Noble

[igorsk]

Originally Posted by Kris777

No. One friend can read it during 14 days and after it your book will be back on your Nook automatically. As soon as you get it back you can pass it to your second friend etc. 10 friends cannot read your book at the same time but they can read it one by one.

It has been confirmed that lending will work only once, period. You can't lend the book again even after it gets back to you. If you some official info to the contrary, I'd love to see it.

[rhadin]

Originally Posted by MV64

Are we sure that the nook isn't proprietary? In that case, you wouldn't have to go buy books exclusively from BN.com, which totally negates the disadvantage of BN.com being more expensive, correct?

B&N has said that the nook will support ePub both Adobe DRMed and B&N DRMed, which makes it fairly open as you will be able to buy ebooks from any ebookseller who sells ePub. Most ebooksellers are supporting the Adobe flavor; whether B&N will sell just its own flavor or both flavors or eventually shift to the Adobe flavor remains to be seen.

As to negating the price disadvantage, the answer is yes and no because sometimes B&N is the lowest price -- except for Amazon -- and other times another ebookseller is lower priced, again except for Amazon. Occasionally Amazon is not the lowest priced. (Of course, no one knows for how long Amazon will keep on the same path of selling some ebooks at a loss or for minimal profit.)

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by Kris777

No. One friend can read it during 14 days and after it your book will be back on your Nook automatically. As soon as you get it back you can pass it to your second friend etc. 10 friends cannot read your book at the same time but they can read it one by one.

wow! what rock have you been under?

Originally Posted by igorsk

It has been confirmed that lending will work only once, period. You can't lend the book again even after it gets back to you. If you some official info to the contrary, I'd love to see it.

what igor said... back to my dollar scenario

[Sporadic]

Originally Posted by Kris777

No. One friend can read it during 14 days and after it your book will be back on your Nook automatically. As soon as you get it back you can pass it to your second friend etc. 10 friends cannot read your book at the same time but they can read it one by one.

Actually, no.

You can let one friend borrow and after the 14 days, you get it back. That's it. You can't loan it out again.

[Kris777]

Originally Posted by igorsk

It has been confirmed that lending will work only once, period. You can't lend the book again even after it gets back to you. If you some official info to the contrary, I'd love to see it.

They have this information on bn.com website:
Share favorite eBooks with your friends or family.

Even if you can share your ebook with one friend only and your friend will share his ebook with you the final cost for 2 ebooks will be twice cheaper for both. I don't think that Amazon.com sell the same books for half price.