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At the same time that major bookseller Barnes & Noble announced a drop in its quarterly net income, the company announced a new version of its Nook Tablet eReader device.
According to a company press release issued on February 21, the new 8GB Nook Tablet will be sold at $199, $50 cheaper than its 16GB predecessor. The new Nook's price tag matches its direct competitor, Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet.
In addition to 512MB of RAM, a 1GHz dual-core processor fit for video-streaming and web-browsing, and an estimated 11.5-hour battery life (reading time), Engadget reports that the 8GB Nook Tablet will offer a microSD slot to make up for the loss of 8GB of on-board storage, a feature the Kindle Fire lacks.
Nook Tablet 8GB: Barnes & Noble Launches $199 Tablet, Slashes Nook Color Price Tag
Seeded on Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:53 AM EST
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The proliferation of ebook readers, with differing and incomatible formats, is making me nervous. Not only do I not want to have my personal library sprawled across several different devices and with several different vendors, I don't like the fact that I do not own the books the way I own my physical books.
Perhaps as the technology evolves these issues will be resolved, but I doubt it will happen without an uprising from the affected consumers and citizens.
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#1 - Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:44 PM ESTI have a Kindle and I do wish that it supported ePub like almost every other e-reader does. It is still a great device. But, choosing which DRM scheme to buy into is a hard decision.
The only Kindle books I buy are those that I figure I would only read once and never pick up again. For books that I might want to reference in the coming years, I still end up buying on paper.
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I'd be hesitant to build up a huge Barnes and Noble eBook library. They seem to always be on the verge of bankruptcy. At least with Amazon, Apple and Sony one gets the expectation that access to the ebooks will be around for as long as the lifetime of the purchaser.
I find myself reading books almost exclusively on the Kindle these days. There are times I confront the limitations of the format, like when I wish I could just flip back through the pages to clear up a point of confusion, but mainly, I prefer the experience to paper books.
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