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Nook Vs Kindle

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The Kindle website (https://kindle.amazon.com/) and the competing Nook website (http://nook.barnesandnoble.com/u) are both trying to get you to do one thing: go digital. Technology is an ever-changing area, and it has somehow made its way into almost every aspect of our lives. Improvements have been made to make it possible to read thousands of books on one device. The only catch? There are multiple companies who are competing for the consumer’s purchase of their version of the device. The alluring idea of being able to access so many books at the click of a button is enough to drive any book-worm crazy. The next step is to choose which God-given device to pick. The futuristic and tempting slogan on the Kindle website reads, “It’s not screen time - it’s book time.” On the Nook …show more content…

People who don’t have an account and are on the site for the sole purpose of buying a Kindle may get lost or overwhelmed by the many other sub-sites of Amazon. Although they’re just trying to get the one product, they may end up way over in the baby clothes section. How in the world did they get there, one may ask. No one really knows. Especially not the shopper. The Nook website is also a sub-site, but of a much smaller website. Barnes and Noble isn’t like Amazon. Contrary to Barnes and Noble, you can get almost anything you want from Amazon. Barnes and Noble is pretty limited to all things books. This makes it much easier to navigate the website, but it also makes the site quite plain.
Simple is good, but not necessarily better. Another downfall of a smaller company like Barnes and Noble as opposed to Amazon is the higher prices at Barnes and Noble. The Nook is significantly more expensive than the Kindle. Although Barnes and Noble does try and lure the customer in with sales and bargain prices, the Nook is still ridiculously

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