Comments on: Barnes and Noble goes after the Kindle http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20091009/barnes-noble-kindle/ Playing with cool gadgets in the ongoing search for the Coolest Gadget Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:53:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Sunday Gadget Gallery » Coolest Gadgets http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20091009/barnes-noble-kindle/comment-page-1/#comment-393383 Sunday Gadget Gallery » Coolest Gadgets Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:59:31 +0000 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/?p=31821#comment-393383 [...] Barnes and Noble goes after the Kindle [...] [...] Barnes and Noble goes after the Kindle [...]

]]> By: Tom http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20091009/barnes-noble-kindle/comment-page-1/#comment-393078 Tom Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:50:13 +0000 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/?p=31821#comment-393078 While competition is generally good for the consumer, it doesn't work that way in this case unless Amazon and B&N agree to a common format that will work on both platforms. If you're locking yourself into a specific format, there is no real competitive choice. I guess one could argue that you could download the iPhone app for both companies, but what I would really like to be able to do is buy a book from B&N and read it on my Kindle. While competition is generally good for the consumer, it doesn’t work that way in this case unless Amazon and B&N agree to a common format that will work on both platforms. If you’re locking yourself into a specific format, there is no real competitive choice.

I guess one could argue that you could download the iPhone app for both companies, but what I would really like to be able to do is buy a book from B&N and read it on my Kindle.

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