{"id":8264,"date":"2009-12-21T08:50:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T16:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/?p=8264"},"modified":"2010-05-10T00:16:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T08:16:39","slug":"merry-christmas-heres-not-a-nook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/electrotech\/merry-christmas-heres-not-a-nook","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas! Here’s Not a Nook."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Longer than The Lord of the Rings, <\/em>more dramatic than The Odyssey, <\/em>and more ridiculous than a two-day marathon of America’s Next Top Model, <\/em>the saga of “The Nook” continues.<\/p>\n

While Nook <\/em>initially got great press from the Tech world – word is that the device is superior to Sony’s eReader and even Amazon’s Kindle<\/a> – Barnes & Noble has seriously messed up their competitive edge by not producing enough Nooks to meet the demand.<\/p>\n

With the deficiency (which B&N maintains is due to shipping problems…but no one’s believing that one), there’s a chance you may not get your Nook by Christmas – even if you pre-ordered and were given a pre-holiday shipping date.<\/p>\n

To soften the blow, B&N is offering $100 gift certificates<\/strong> and fancy “Your Nook Will Be Here Soon” Cards for those whose Nooks won’t be under the tree for Christmas Day.<\/p>\n

It’s a nice gesture – but will that be enough for B&N to recover from this disaster and take on the increasingly popular Kindle? Only time will tell.<\/p>\n

Read the Full Story<\/a> {Wired}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Longer than The Lord of the Rings, more dramatic than The Odyssey, and more ridiculous than a two-day marathon of America’s Next Top Model, the saga of “The Nook” continues. While Nook initially got great press from the Tech world – word is that the device is superior to Sony’s eReader and even Amazon’s Kindle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6840],"tags":[288,546,1016,2018,545,166,45,547],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11152,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264\/revisions\/11152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}