Plastic Logic, Barnes & Noble Gang Up on Amazon

By Rob Enderle
July 22nd, 2009

I’m kind of surprised it took so long for a major retailer to chase after Amazon and its unique Kindle. Up until now, the only real competition so far has come from Sony’s incredibly lame Readers, which have neither the ease of use, nor the available library of books to have any fighting chance against the Kindle.

But Barnes & Noble is a credible book retailer, and even though it entered and exited the eBook market earlier this decade, now that Amazon has shown that a market for these devices actually does exist, the company is now apparently going after it with a vengeance. While books will be available on the MacOS, Windows, RIM Blackberry, and the iPhone, it is the Plastic Logic’s B&N-backed eReader will probably get the attention.

Let’s look at the chinks in the Kindle’s armor, what this ...

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