Comments on: Soon you’ll be able to use your Nook to buy books in Barnes & Noble stores

By: whoisstan

whoisstan — Wed, 02 May 2012 12:56:08 +0000

I described the concept here: http://whoisstan.tumblr.com/post/7350201293/buy-it-later-hybrid-stores

By: whoisstan

whoisstan — Wed, 02 May 2012 12:55:12 +0000

Interesting idea. The chips and its identifier should be universally accesible, I am sure they will, so not just B&N, anybody can use those as *hyperlinks*, doubt the publishers will settle for a closed system. The big advantage of chips over optical recognition is that you can identify each book instance, so you can start creating stores that have hardly any inventory and every seller can potentially get a small commission, not only big chains anybody. If I scan the book at my friends house and make a purchase after that my friend should get the commission.

By: Cynthia Washburn

Cynthia Washburn — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:32:10 +0000

Ummm… I can already buy a print book in the book store – at the cash register with this thing they call money. And I don’t even have to carry another electronic gadget to do it.

I also don’t understand why I’d want to purchase a document that someone created in Word – why wouldn’t they convert it to PDF or ePub first? This makes no sense.

By: Aaron Ramirez

Aaron Ramirez — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:22:14 +0000

The only difference this is going to make is that the books are now going to be more expensive, and the nooks are too. Why don’t they just put a camera on a nuke and make a cover recognition software that recognizes a book simply by pointing the camera to the book.