parislemon:

A few things:

1) Barnes & Noble makes fun of the Kindle Fire, noting that it looks like a BlackBerry PlayBook — completely fair and true. The Nook Tablet clearly looks nicer. 

2) But… the Kindle Fire is still at the magical $199 price point, while the Nook Tablet is at $249.

3) That may not seem like a huge difference but… the Nook Tablet doesn’t have a little thing called Amazon.com and all its related properties. 

4) The Nook Tablet specs sound great, but again, it’s $50 more and doesn’t have Amazon.com. Further, at $249, the tablet clearly isn’t going to be good enough to match the iPad. So Barnes & Noble may feel a bit squeezed. They’re not the cheapest and they’re not the best.

Yes, but for $50 more, I can have a fully-functioning Android tablet in a few minutes, and with so may publishers moving to the agency model for pricing e-books, what is content difference? Add on B&N’s brick-and-mortar experience and the numerous money-back programs it participates in even for e-books (like Upromise) and I’d be looking a lot harder at the Nook if I was looking at an e-reader only device.