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Barnes & Noble's awesome? Nook e-reader can now be had at Best Buy starting April 18.  Hooray? 

At a cost of $259.99, the Nook may just be the colorful e-reader for you.  Or not. 

Up until this news, the Nook has been hard to come by, but with their pending availability at Best Buy, perhaps greater adoption of the device by those in love with Barnes & Noble and/or reading may be in the offing. Not likely.  Best Buy also sells the iPad, and if you walked up to a display for each, which would you choose, the iPad or the Nook?  As an owner of both the Kindle and iPad, I prefer the Kindle for reading, perhaps I am getting old, but too much reading on the iPad's awesome screen hurts my eyes, I am not,  nor will I ever be, in the market for a Nook.  Will you?

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The iPad, and other various e-readers, the Kindle, Nook, ect., have been touted by some as the savior of the newspaper and magazine industry.  It may very well be the case, at least for one newspaper, the Wall Street Journal. 

The WSJ, in their iPad excited state, announced their monthly iPad subscription that I won't purchase will cost $17.99 a month.  Not bad when you consider the print version I don't buy costs $349 for 52 weeks or about $29 per month.

Magazines are taking a different approach by delivering weekly or monthly editions, but not annual subscriptions. Esquire magazine can be downloaded advertisements for $2.99, $2 less than the newsstand price, whereas a full iPad issue of Men's Health will evidently carry the same $4.99 price as the paper version.

What if any print publications will you purchase if you are getting an iPad?  Do you purchase any if you have a Kindle, or other e-reader?  Don't be forgetting to be a fan of our Facebook page, and suggest to your friends that they too become a fan, in order to participate in our GRAND contests, one of which is posted now!

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Today's iPad pre-order frenzy may have you thinking that Nook, Kindle or Sony e-reader you have will soon make you seem like the person who still totes around an outdated music player like the Zune.  Fret not says Wired (although they are touting their new magazine version for the iPad).


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Barnes & Noble will be releasing an iPad app for the much anticipated device when the Wi-Fi version hits consumer's hands April 3rd.  It’s hardly surprising for America’s largest bookseller to want to get in on the action with many predicting the iPad will dominate the ereader market just as it has with the iPod and iPhone.

Announced on the company's blog, Barnes & Noble states the free application will give customers access to more than one million eBooks, magazines and newspapers.

But what about their own ereader, the Nook? Despite reports of its failure, the company claims sales are robust.  Indeed they do.  Whether that will continue in light of the iPad’s release, is likely to depend on the success of Apple’s latest product.

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