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Lessons for Nook from Zune
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| 1. The Kindle isn't a monopoly
| The Kindle, on which I was unduly harsh when
| it first appeared, has been the most popular
| e-reader. But it does not yet have the
| massive market presence that the iPod did by
| the time the first Zunes came out. (Amazon
| has not released sales numbers, but
| TechCrunch estimates it somewhere north of a
| million.) This matters because lending and
| borrowing are only attractive if you believe
| there will be other people near by you whose
| taste you trust to borrow from.
|
| The tide was clearly against the Zune by the
| time it came out, which did not give
| consumers confidence that there would be
| other Zune users to get music from. In that
| case, it was just safer to stick with the
| leader, the iPod.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13641_3-10384838-44.html
Recent:
OpenInkpot: free software for e-book readers
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| OpenInkpot (or OI) intends to be a full alternative,
| free software stack for e-ink based readers. It comes
| with a "bookshelf" menu to handle your collection of
| e-books and brings the popular FBReader and Cool
| Reader to display most e-book formats, among them
| epub, fb2, txt, html, rtf, pdb, plucker and
| mobipocket. PDF files are handled by OI's own locoPDF
| and madeye is a simple viewer for images. A sound
| player application for audio books will join the OI
| software collection soon.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/354714/
Libraries and Readers Wade Into Digital Lending
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| Eager to attract digitally savvy patrons and
| capitalize on the growing popularity of electronic
| readers, public libraries across the country are
| expanding collections of books that reside on servers
| rather than shelves.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/books/15libraries.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
Android May Power New Barnes & Noble E-Reader
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| Reports indicate that another new e-
| reader is on the way, this time from
| Barnes & Noble. The interesting thing -
| or at least the interesting thing that
| makes this development connect to the
| search industry - is that Barnes &
| Noble's e-reader will supposedly use
| Android as its operating system.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/10/09/android-may-power-new-barnes-noble-e-reader
3G wireless eReader from Irex aims to tackle Amazon's Kindle
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| Although the handheld reader will connect to Windows
| PCs through the USB port, its underlying platform will
| be built on Linux for "open development," he said.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/3G-wireless-eReader-from-Irex-aims-to-tackle-Amazons-Kindle/1253737925
eReader on Android Soon, Planned for Palm Pre Later
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| Google Android handset owners can expect eReader availability in âmid- to
| late summer,â according to TeleRead. They spoke to Scott Pendergrast of
| Fictionwise, which is owned by Barnes & Noble.
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http://jkontherun.com/2009/06/10/ereader-on-android-soon-planned-for-palm-pre-later/
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