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That's kind of my point, we don't know what it will offer, yet you seem to say it just plain doesn't matter because it won't be good enough. You may be right, but I'd hate to see them take your "might as well not even bother" approach that seems to permeate the post I quoted from you.
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Both companies have been extremely cautious when publishing those numbers so I have my doubts about such B&N report. Just in computer books, Amazon beats B&N by far, barely followed by O'Reilly but with higher prices, twice or even triple the price per ebook. |
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Hey, speculation is part of the fun. ![]() I feel that competition is good , and I'm hoping that B&N will pull a rabbit out of the hat, rather than just lay down and die, which seems to be what most people on the thread seem to want them to do. I will admit that they are in a bind, though. |
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It's also about the content! |
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I'd be more surprised if you DIDN'T doubt something B&N says. Of all the people I know IRL who use Nooks, Kindles, Kobo's etc, they use them to read novels. I'm in I.T. as well and I have to wonder how big the segment of users is who would read technical manuals/computer books on their e-ink device. I know I wouldn't but it is a curiosity. Last edited by Grimm; 10-03-2011 at 07:32 PM. |
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Speculation is great, but when there are no details whatsoever, it goes from speculation to taking shots in the dark.
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So you're suggesting B&N has somewhere in the neighborhood of only 200k-500k books available outside of Public Domain books? You may be right but I'd like to see the source on that.
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But I respectfully disagree in that B&N online collection is bigger than Amazon's. I do not think that's the case. |
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Well now wait a second, if you're going to stop me from making a claim about a larger book presence because neither side will release their numbers then you need to do the same.
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jocampo, here you go, I was just going off the link in the first post for the numbers:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=151826 |
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To give you an example, for non fiction, there are about 711k available titles. Computers and Internet, about 26k. And so on. I'm bad with numbers ![]() You can get the same details on the Kindle as well by the way, Amazon store. |
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Hey I'm just going off what you said earlier and used as part of the basis for your argument.
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