{"id":6493,"date":"2010-08-26T10:55:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T15:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6493"},"modified":"2010-08-26T10:55:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T15:55:36","slug":"industry-leaders-kindle-and-nook-battle-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6493","title":{"rendered":"Industry Leaders Kindle and Nook Battle it Out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not surprising that\u00c2\u00a0mammoth online bookseller <strong>Amazon<\/strong> and offline (bricks and mortar) book giant<strong> Barnes and Noble<\/strong> would battle for top spot in the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MarketWatch<\/strong> reports <strong><a title=\"MarketWatch says Kindle Outselling Itself\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/new-generation-kindles-are-the-fastest-selling-kindles-ever-and-already-the-best-selling-products-on-amazon-2010-08-25?reflink=MW_news_stmp\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a><\/strong> that Amazon&#8217;s new generation (<strong>WiFi $139<\/strong> or <strong>3G $189<\/strong>) sleeker <strong>Kindle<\/strong> is outselling all its previous versions.<\/p>\n<p>And <strong>FastCompany <\/strong><a title=\"FastCompany and Barnes &amp; Noble\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1684823\/dont-underestimate-the-barnes-noble-nook\" target=\"_self\"><strong>reports<\/strong><\/a> on Barnes and Noble&#8217;s foray into digital publishing being a qualified success in the face of much industry doubt, as indicators suggest the storefront goliath is holding its own with innovative answers to digital challenges.<\/p>\n<p>This in a market that many predicted would start to shift toward the\u00c2\u00a0more expensive<strong>\u00c2\u00a0iPad<\/strong> full-color,\u00c2\u00a0multi-function territory. The battle between <strong>Kindle<\/strong> and <strong>Nook<\/strong> tells us that there is a huge market for single-purpose eBook Readers. And that is market direction dictated by consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not surprising that\u00c2\u00a0mammoth online bookseller Amazon and offline (bricks and mortar) book giant Barnes and Noble would battle for top spot in the eBook Revolution. MarketWatch reports here that Amazon&#8217;s new generation (WiFi $139 or 3G $189) sleeker Kindle is outselling all its previous versions. And FastCompany reports on Barnes and Noble&#8217;s foray into &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6493\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8,12,15,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6493"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6505,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions\/6505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}