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  • The tide has turned: Nook is dead this season

    John Biggs

    Biggs is the East Coast Editor of TechCrunch. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at... → Learn More

    Friday, December 11th, 2009

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    The Nook is the Blackberry Storm of 2009. Straight up. Reviews are so bad and popular opinion is so negative that it will be a wonder if these things don’t end up under a parking lot in the New Mexico desert come May.

    Take this example: Ben Clemens, late of San Francisco, for example, returned his already and everyone is talking about Mossberg and Pogue’s reviews. While the original Kindle was no great shakes, it seems like B&N tried their hardest to make this one of the clunkers of the season.

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