(Photos: First glance at Barnes & Noble's e-reader)

Looks pretty good to me: I like the integrated light; that is a major failing of the Kindle in my opinion. Maybe that was excusable in the Kindle1, but not in the Kindle2.

If B&N sells it for less than the Kindle they'll have to do it by selling at a loss, something Amazon has resisted. This unit is necessarily much more expensive to produce than either the Kindle or the Sony units.

I bet they sell it below cost but with a book purchase requirement. (In fact, I bet most of the new readers come along with such contracts.)

In any case it's good to see more of these coming onto the market; more readers means more publishers giving us books in electronic formats, and that means much more accessibility. Win win win.

jim frost
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