Comments on: TKC 73 Brent Evans http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/2009/12/11/tkc-73-brent-evans/ The Friday Podcast All About Your Kindle Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:06:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jennifer Jacobsen http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/2009/12/11/tkc-73-brent-evans/comment-page-1/#comment-19999 Jennifer Jacobsen Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:32:24 +0000 http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=824#comment-19999 Have you ever seen the sitcom "Big Bang Theory" Monday nights on CBS? One of the characters owns a Kindle and it can be seen in his apartment in the background. Also, this past Sunday the Boston Globe had two stories where they mentioned ereaders but instead of using the word "ereader' they used "Kindle"... is it the new Kleenex? Thanks. Have you ever seen the sitcom “Big Bang Theory” Monday nights on CBS? One of the characters owns a Kindle and it can be seen in his apartment in the background.

Also, this past Sunday the Boston Globe had two stories where they mentioned ereaders but instead of using the word “ereader’ they used “Kindle”… is it the new Kleenex?
Thanks.

]]> By: Andrys http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/2009/12/11/tkc-73-brent-evans/comment-page-1/#comment-19751 Andrys Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:24:37 +0000 http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=824#comment-19751 Rick, would B&N be so naive re announcing it before clearing with publishers? (I don't think so.) They pushed the marketing buzz, keeping fine print microscopic after the stipulations were in place. On the B&N forums, staff answers that, yes, multiple Nooks under one account can share books. They haven't said what limit there may be to that though. I certainly agree with you on the publisher myopia and then some! Rick, would B&N be so naive re announcing it before clearing with publishers? (I don’t think so.)

They pushed the marketing buzz, keeping fine print microscopic after the stipulations were in place.

On the B&N forums, staff answers that, yes, multiple Nooks under one account can share books. They haven’t said what limit there may be to that though.

I certainly agree with you on the publisher myopia and then some!

]]> By: Al MacDiarmid http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/2009/12/11/tkc-73-brent-evans/comment-page-1/#comment-19743 Al MacDiarmid Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:50:41 +0000 http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=824#comment-19743 Re: The "Lend me" feature on the nook. It appeared to me that early on Barnes and Noble got all excited about this feature and announced it before clearing it with publishers. Then publishers got all scared about this feature and negotiated with B&N (I use this term loosely, they more likely threatened) to make it first a serial loan, that is one at a time instead in parallel like the Kindle share and second finally to be loaned only once. Then they announced that the publishers had the right to opt out. I feel that Barnes and Noble are being sorely blamed for something that publishers steamrolled B&N on. I don't think the publishers realize how many sales are generated off word or mouth, lending, libraries and all sorts of ways to get the excitement about a book going. I think it is time to move the tar brush from B&N to publishers where it belongs. I really think publishers suffer from mental myopia and unless get better spectacles they are going to mortally wound themselves. Steve Jordan in his book "Why Is This Hill So Steep?" points out the blindness of what he calls BigPub very well. Re: The “Lend me” feature on the nook. It appeared to me that early on Barnes and Noble got all excited about this feature and announced it before clearing it with publishers. Then publishers got all scared about this feature and negotiated with B&N (I use this term loosely, they more likely threatened) to make it first a serial loan, that is one at a time instead in parallel like the Kindle share and second finally to be loaned only once. Then they announced that the publishers had the right to opt out. I feel that Barnes and Noble are being sorely blamed for something that publishers steamrolled B&N on. I don’t think the publishers realize how many sales are generated off word or mouth, lending, libraries and all sorts of ways to get the excitement about a book going. I think it is time to move the tar brush from B&N to publishers where it belongs. I really think publishers suffer from mental myopia and unless get better spectacles they are going to mortally wound themselves. Steve Jordan in his book “Why Is This Hill So Steep?” points out the blindness of what he calls BigPub very well.

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