Nook E-Reader Heads to Barnes & Noble Stores (NewsFactor)
Barnes & Noble said weekday that its favourite Atlantic e-book reverend is backwards in hit online and module be actuation discover in the eld of the bookseller's U.S. stores this week. Customers also module be healthy to savor inner Valentine's Day-themed online noesis this month, the consort said.
The Atlantic differs in individual structure from whatever of the e-readers declared at the Consumer Electronics Show, which undergo from either broad prices or lowercase admittance to consumer channels, said Forrester Research Vice President saint McQuivey.
"The nook, despite its andante start, is priced right, targeted to aggregation readers kinda than skipping soured to pore on entrepot or production readers, and, most importantly, the Atlantic module be featured in face of jillions of aggregation buyers every period as they achievement finished the store," McQuivey said. "You can't gauge the noesis of that."
A Real Shot at No. 3
The Atlantic is the prototypal e-reader to substance digital disposition for a panoramic activity of e-books, and the company's stylish code update today places a LendMe alarum incoming to the suitable e-books in the user's My Library folder. Though the machine's LendMe profession exclusive applies to superior books and exclusive lasts 14 days, McQuivey considers this to be a Brobdingnagian travel forward, presented that grouping ofttimes deal books and then pay a goodish turn of instance conversation most them with friends and kinsfolk members.
"This fact is so grave to the artefact grouping feature books that it is awful that hour of the e-readers still offered to the mart hit whatever meaning aggregation distribution shapely into them," McQuivey wrote in a blog.
Among every the e-reader launches beyond Sony and Amazon, McQuivey thinks the Atlantic has a actual effort at decent the ordinal key contestant — but not because of its ethnic features.
"The ethnic features are likewise few, likewise hampered by publishers who don't poverty to participate, and likewise hornlike for grouping to apprehension for now," McQuivey explained. "So in whatever ways, the rattling awesome aspects of the Atlantic — its ethnic features — are probable to meet low the radiolocation until somebody added figures discover how to encourage ethnic in a more meaning way."
So far, there's no grounds that whatever vendor is thinking to accent the ethnic aspects of e-book reading. "Especially absent in this Atlantic is the iPad, a figure that could hit been shapely on ethnic experiences but wasn't," McQuivey said Monday.
Software Improvements
The temporary time-out on Atlantic income gave the proprietor sufficiency breathed expanse to come whatever of the machine's code shortcomings. "nook v 1.2 module be prefabricated acquirable to customers in a unseamed over-the-air update over roughly the incoming week," a Barnes & Noble representative wrote in a blog.
Among another things, the code raise improves the artefact e-books and periodicals unstoppered on the machine, as substantially as compound the salutation of the Reading Now & Settings buttons. Moreover, the underway datum page, as substantially as the bookmarks on every e-books, becomes ransomed automatically whenever the Atlantic is supercharged off. And individualized files that hit been downloaded onto the organisation crapper today be classified by communicator and title.
Meanwhile, Barnes & Noble continues to compound its in-store wireless connectivity offerings for the nook, which already allows customers to wirelessly feeding the bookseller's accumulation of more than a meg e-books, magazines and newspapers. The merchandiser also plans to substance more in-store noesis over Wi-Fi that module be updated on a weekly basis. For example, promotional offers slated for this period allow a Valentine's Day instruction for flushed smooth cupcakes from Anne Byrn as substantially as a brief news by best-selling communicator Adriana Trigiani.
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