Read Street: Nook challenging Kindle this holiday season - A blog for a community of readers, in Baltimore and beyond.

The Baltimore Sun > Good Life > Read Street

« Combat Correspondents: The Baltimore Sun in World War II | Main | A plea to Southwest Airlines »

November 9, 2009

Nook challenging Kindle this holiday season

Barnes & Noble's new e-reader, the nook, has gotten off to a strong start as the all-important holiday shopping season nears. (Maybe it started weeks ago, with the big book discounts offered by Walmart, Amazon and others.)
"Demand for the product in our stores and online has surpassed our expectations," company spokeswoman Mary Ellen Keating said, according to the Wall Street Journal. While declining to give sales numbers, she said the first wave of pre-orders will be shipped on Nov. 30 as promised. However, customers who pre-order the $259 device now will have to wait a little longer to receive them. "We are working hard to meet demand for the holidays," she said.
So, Nancy, if you're looking to bring me over to e-books, you'd better order my reader soon.

Posted by Dave Rosenthal at 9:50 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Post a comment

All comments must be approved by the blog author. Please do not resubmit comments if they do not immediately appear. You are not required to use your full name when posting, but you should use a real e-mail address. Comments may be republished in print, but we will not publish your e-mail address. Our full Terms of Service are available here.

Name:

Email Address:

URL:

Remember personal info?

Comments: (you may use HTML tags for style)

Please enter the letter "r" in the field below:

Edgar Allan Poe is 200!

All you need to know about the macabre master including Poe-themed events, photos, video and a trivia quiz.

Calendar of events

> View full calendar

-- ADVERTISEMENT --

Map: Bookstores

View Favorite Bookstores in a larger map

About the bloggers

While she always preferred The Hardy Boys to Nancy Drew, Nancy Knight grew up reading nearly everything she could get her hands on, including a probably unhealthy amount of R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike, with the obligatory Jane Austen thrown in. She'll still read just about anything you put in front of her, especially the funny or weird. She lives in the city with her books, cat and drum set.

Dave Rosenthal came to The Baltimore Sun as a business reporter in 1987 and now is an assistant managing editor and Sunday editor. He reads a wide range of books (but never as many as he'd like), usually alternating between non-fiction and fiction. Some all-time favorites: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery; and anything by Calvin Trillin or John McPhee. He belongs to a book club with a Jewish theme.