Tim Carmody has got this thoughtful little piece over at Snarkmarket on Barnes & Noble’s strategy with the Nook. Apparently, you can read any book for free in any B&N store in the world:
They say: yes, you can use your Nook anywhere — but the very best place to use it is in one of our stores. What’s more: as long as you’re in the store, you can read as much of as many books as you want. Just like if you were flipping the pages. That’s huge!
Tim thinks this is B&N’s way of leveraging their physical store presence over the Kindle. I think I’ve just found the new libraries of the 21st century.
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Thanks for the link and the kind words! One correction, though; this post’s by me, Robin’s co-blogger, Tim Carmody.
Oops, sorry Tim, forgot that Electric Green belonged to you. Corrected now.
We actually picked our colors to go with the shirts we’d wear (with black paisley vests, natch) if we were ever at a formal event together. :)
Man I’ve got to see that sometime. It should look eerily similar to the Powerpuff Girls. ;-)
Yet another reason for me to justify getting one.