11-01-2009, 12:07 PM | #91 |
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11-02-2009, 12:26 PM | #93 |
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It occurred to me last night: If I was going to name such a device, I might choose the name of a famous and respected author... something like Twain, or Shakespeare, or Dickens. As I thought about it more, I decided I liked Dickens, who was noted for bringing the "common man" and lower classes into his stories as few had before him... a laudable and desirable facility for an e-book reader.
Also, it opens up the PR gates to comments about "the little Dickens." |
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We could call it the Jordan...
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Would that be the river? Or the basketball player?
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I was thinking that world famous SF writer...
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The nookie (consults urban dictionary). erm maybe not.
I am guessing the 'B&N book-e' was taken. Any variation on the term ebook combined with the B&N name would have worked. |
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Hmm... how about "the little black book" or is that one taken too?
The new kindle commercial is catchy, but somehow I never remember itʻs for kindle. I always think itʻs for deodorant or something... |
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If it were named after a classic author, a common emotional response to the name would likely be "Oh, that stuff I had to read in school" or "only for highbrows", which is probably not what B&N was aiming at. And naming it after a modern author would appeal to readers of that author or genre, but might be a turnoff for others. I suspect "Nook" was intended to evoke a more general warm-and-fuzzy idea of reading as a refuge, a cosy little place to get away from the world. And any, um, alternate meanings would at least relate to activities that are generally regarded in a positive light.
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Yeah, I get that.
My feeling, though, is that most people--even most readers--cannot directly relate to that idea, because they've never had a "nook" to do their reading in. To me, Nook also seems a bit elitist, something for special people who can devote spaces to one thing and one thing only, lock themselves away and get away from it all. I suspect that, the more corporations try to make us think we need a special space just for reading, the fewer readers there will be. I think the name should have evoked a different experience, a desire to read, to learn, to be entertained... as opposed to a place to do that. In that light, I'd say the name "Kindle" evokes that idea much better than "Nook" does. But then, maybe B&N were specifically thinking of the parallels, and trying for a name that denoted a place and specifically not an act or emotion. I just don't think it worked. (Anyway, since I now know I can download a book from B&N and read it on my iPaq, I'll never buy a Nook, or a Kindle, and it probably doesn't matter a whit what I think. ) |
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For me it doesn't evoke the foreign concept of a special place to do my reading, but rather the familiar one of a special place inside my head.
But as you say, it may not succeed for everyone. P.S. Perhaps they could've called it the Portal, because it opens the doors of literature, and sounds a bit like "portable". It's not a particularly attention-grabbing or euphonious word, though. (Speaking of which, I've always admired the name of the PalmOS text adventure interpreter CellarDoor. Not only did they use what has been claimed to be the most euphonious phrase in the English language, but it's incredibly appropriate for a genre so closely associated with dungeon crawls!) Last edited by wayrad; 11-19-2009 at 10:55 AM. |
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