[Felix Torres]

At this point, the Nook ereader looks to be more of a wait-n-see product.
It has an interesting checklist of features but most come with fine print...
- Wi-fi? Only in-store, not at home or roaming.
- Lending ebooks for up to 14-days? Only if the publisher allows it. (Kinda like Kindle's TTS). No TTS, btw, so its a trade-off, not a net gain, of publisher-regulated features.
- MicroSD support is great, but with 2GB onboard it's a bit less than compelling.
- native pdf support is great on paper but with a 6" screen less useful than expected
- Android-based? Yes, but no SDK and no third-party support in place or announced. They're going to "wait and see".
- Lots of books available? If you count the half-million Google crapscans. Otherwise they run about 200,000 commercial books vs Amazons 300,000 or so
- $9.99 ebook pricing? Yes, on "hundreds of NYT bestsellers", quoting from the launch of their ebook store a couple months back. At the time, most of their books ran 20% and more above Amazon prices. No word to date on whether they intend to match Amazon prices or stay within the Adobe Server publisher-mandated pricing envelope.
- color touch screen? yes, but there doesn't appear to be a way to shut it off so it's both a distraction while reafing and a power drain; might explain why it's thicker, heavier than Kindle, yet gets roughly a third less life out of its battery (user replaceable, though; yay!) 10 days vs two weeks.
- it supports ADE and the Adobe epub, the darlings of the ABA (anything-but amazon) crowd outside the US, but there is no international distribution or support and it requires an update to the in-use versions of the Adobe software and server that won't be available to non-B&N sources until 2010.

The funny thing is that for all of the talk about the Nook ereader being a Kindle killer, the product line it most directly impacts is Sony, which has been relying on B&N ebookstore support while updating their own, less-than-appealing store. The Nook offers most of the features of the wireless Sony for $140 less and out-features the $300 model.

Bottom line: its a first-gen product. Needs work.
Last year it would've been an industry leader.
This year? Competitive but not compelling.
And since it doesn't arrive until late november it's really a 2010 product.
And 2010 is going to bring a *lot* of new ereaders.
Wait and see, folks.