Comments on: Deja Vu – This Christmas Nook ereader will be out of stock

By: Missy

Missy — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:05:12 +0000

I think it’s the market unseen. I read early in 2009 that this would be the ebook reader year. And it is. But around Christmas.

And 2010? Will be even BIGGER.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:20:19 +0000

Possibility #4. The manufacturing yields are less than expected and the ODM is unable to ramp supply. All you can say, in the absence of real data, is that demand exceeds supply. Why preclude the possibility that the supply of a brand new, never released product is less than expected? It wouldn’t be the first time that this has happened to a new high tech product.

By: Meagan

Meagan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:39:08 +0000

As a B&N bookseller, I can verify the Wall Street Journal’s take on it. We were told to start telling customers the 7th and then the 11th for preorder ship dates. They are still hoping to have units to sell in-store, but only “A” and “B” stores get them (sorted by sales volume). “C” stores will only have a (one) display.

By: Paul Story

Paul Story — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:55:47 +0000

Amazon is used to coping with a high number of visitors (they run cloud operations for third parties) and yet in the couple of days after the K International shipped, it was almost impossible at times to log into your account to track the shipment. Much of that will be down to people hitting refresh to get a minute-to-minute update, but I think we might be suprised if and when the true numbers are ever revealed.