We can only imagine the head honchos at Sony (makers of the competing Sony Reader Pocket Edition and Sony Reader Daily Edition) toasting each other with saki glasses held high while Amazon's Jeff Bezos cackled in his infamous way. It took until mid-February 2010 to get them to stores and have them in stock for shipping online. And they weren't ready to ship en masse just after the holidays either. It was supposed to ship by Christmas but a good number of pre-orders didn't, so Barnes & Noble sent would-be gift givers sad little cardboard nooks to put under the tree.

Barnes & Noble sent out very few review units (perhaps that was foresight) and it was nearly universally panned. Let's face it, the nook launch in early December 2009 was a fiasco. In Chief (updated Apfor the nook 1.3 update) 2010: Read our Nook Color review.Įditor's note, June 2010: Barnes & Noble dropped the price of the nook 3G to $199 and now also offers the nook Wi-Fi which is identical but has only Wi-Fi, no 3G for $149. What's not: Can't create collections or folders to organize books.Įditor's note, June 2011: Read our New Nook Simple Touch Reader review.Įditor's note, Nov. Home > eBook Reader Reviews > Barnes & Noble Nook

Barnes and noble nook reader for pc