No More nook eReaders for Christmas; Kindles to Get Folders no comments
The nook is now officially sold out for Christmas. Barnes and Noble is telling purchasers of its new ereader that as of today pre-ordered nook ereaders will not be shipped until after New Year’s.
All customers ordering a nook beginning today, November 20 should expect their devices to ship beginning the week of January 4, 2010. To assist those customers who are purchasing nooks as holiday gifts, we have created a special holiday certificate, noting an expected January ship date. Beginning today, any customer pre-ordering nook as a gift will have the option to receive a special certificate at no cost — either in-store or via mail, for those pre-ordering online.
No doubt all of this competition to the Kindle ereader’s current supremacy has encouraged Amazon to fill some of the little chinks in the Kindle’s armor of late. Little chinks such as Kindle for PC and Mac and Blackberry (coming soon). And other little missing bits and pieces such as folders to better organize one’s library on the Kindle. The latter is something users of the Kindle ereader have been asking for for a long time.
Amazon announced on its Kindle Facebook page that folders will be added via an over-the-air update during the first half of next year. It seems a bit odd that Amazon released the news first on Facebook and only belatedly on its Kindle forums, but it is welcome news for Kindlers never the less.
It seems that Amazon is seeking to counter competition by adding some of the missing features to the current Kindle model, and this may be an indication that we shouldn’t expect a new iteration of the Kindle ereader in the very near future. On the other hand, possibly this strategy will give Amazon a bit of extra time to develop some really killer features for the next Kindle edition.
