Comments on: First Take: Nook Ready To Try; Buy? Not So Fast

By: Ed Dunn

Ed Dunn — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:40:11 +0000

I’m see the word “scan” instead of “read” appear many times when it comes to e-book experience.

It appears to me that it doesn’t make business sense to then port these large volume books to these devices and instead, focus on scan-friendly content. And I’m about to introduce the rub…

If the experience is scanning instead of reading, then I will predict content aggegators that can scrape and summarize mainstream news will fare better with paid subscription than established companies like newspapers and magazines. Consumers appear to enjoy scanning a diversity of content rather than stick to one major news source if they are savvy enough to subscribe to this kind of device..

This is going to be interesting…

By: Andrys Basten

Andrys Basten — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:56:14 +0000

Staci,
Enjoyed your report on the visit. Where I am, in northern California near Berkeley, the store wouldn’t let us open books the night I was there. Said we’d have to download them first and the management doesn’t want that done but i could see the demo that was on it, but they did finally download something – a sample. So I couldn’t really see how it would be to open a book and turn pages and try to navigate.

The screens, by the way: Both the Kindle2 and the Nook use the same screen from e-Ink – Nook has a smaller bezel on it so it can seem larger or, actually, the Kindle’s looks smaller because its bezel is larger. I was glad they fixed that ratio of bezel to screen with the DX.

– Andrys
http://kindleworld.blogspot.com