Yesterday, on Habré, they were very actively
discussing the news that Barnes & Noble released a version of the reader for Nook e-books without 3G for only $ 149. The price of the Nook with 3G has been reduced from $ 259 to $ 199.
We discussed it not only on Habré, but also on Twitter, where I saw quite a few tweets about Nook. Nobody doubted that he was the Amazon Kindle killer (or even the Apple iPad).
Apparently, Amazon employees also read Twitter (and maybe Habr), so today a new banner has appeared on the main page of their store:
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$ 189 for a version with WiFi and 3G running worldwide. And don't forget that in Amazon books are usually cheaper than in Barnes & Noble (but there are exceptions, of course).
The king is dead - long live the king!