Barnes & Noble’s iPad App: The iPad Ebook War Just Got Real(er)

Barnes & Noble’sfree eReader appis here , and shockingly , it ’s plausibly the best ebook app on the iPad , for now . Better than Kindle , and well than iBooks .

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It ’s kind of a cross between Apple ’s iBooks app and Amazon ’s Kindle app , bringing the good ( and worst ) of both into a undivided app , with a few supererogatory featuresfrom the nook .

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What’s Good (Mostly)

• Like Kindle , it ’s part of a multi - equipment platform , so you ’ll have access to all of the B&N books in your library across your data processor , nook , iPad and the new iPhone and Android apps that are come soon . In theory , it ’ll synchronise all of your tone and highlights for each book . ( The Mac eReader program is pretty stinking , though , and does n’t really sync . )

• It has room more leger than iBooks , and is catching up to Kindle . B&N ’s prescribed number is over a million , but half of those are works in the public orbit . For example , it match ourKindle script recognize checkexactly , and had the same prices as Kindle for all of those books .

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• Barnes & Noble ’s killer feature , lending book , is fully entire . It mould perfectly , with a notification that I had a book available to borrow when I booted up the app . The caper is finding Book that are actually lendable , since not all of them are , and the LendMe badge is leisurely to miss . The crappy , WTF part is that you in reality have to enter a credit circuit board figure or already have one on file with B&N for read the adopt book ( because their LendMe DRM is bind to your reference card , which sound a niggling dicey on the surface of it ) . Either elbow room , it ’s a good feature article that could be killer if it was done better .

• It ’s more customizable and powerful than the Kindle app , nearer to iBooks : Multiple baptistery ( eight of ’em , really , though I do n’t particularly love any of them , so I ’ve been sticking with Georgia ) , along with substance abuser defined margins and line of merchandise spacing . ( Since the exploiter does n’t always know as well as professional bookmakers , there is an choice to use the publisher ’s mise en scene — though they ’re not always keen either )

• Search for your depository library , and of course , in rule book , plus full dictionary powers ( unlike Kindle ’s app )

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What’s Bad (or Missing)

• The app is kind of blandly slimy , and the UI is n’t as pleasant or dim-witted as Kindle . ( In part because it ’s doing more . )

• Buying books shoot you out to the internet browser , which is n’t simply jarring , but the B&N site is not a cup of tea of fun to navigate on the iPad . While Apple might be tying their hand here , preventing them from integrate the store into the app like iBooks , they could at least come up with a customs duty iPad storefront , a job Kindle suffers from as well . In fact , a few times I hear to download a sample , it just would n’t work , so it borders on broken .

• The overall syncing and depository library management system just is n’t as decent as Kindle . Let ’s confront it , Amazon pinpoint the backend . Also , it ’s kind of nuts on this body-build , in that I could n’t rule a way to kill Laura Bush ’s biography or whatever off of my iPad — even resorting to the B&N internet site , trying to remove the record book kept giving me an error .

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• The nook ’s other cool feature , the power to read full ebooks for free inside of B&N stores , just like range Word for genuine , is n’t in the iPad app , though B&N says it ’s make out . In the interim , if you show the app in - store for the next calendar month , you ’ll get an access code for a free Quran

• B&N is squandering part of their advantage in using ePub with Adobe DRM , in that you ca n’t sideload previously buy books — like if you had a Sony Reader , you could useAdobe ’s Content Serverto transfer DRM’d books you bought from Sony ’s store to your nook . Not happening with the iPad , and B&N has no idea when it will , though it ’s “ on the roadmap . ” ( Barnes & Noble is work with Adobe on a more interoperable DRM answer to make it happen . )

The Score

Like Amazon , Barnes & Noble ’s endgoal is n’t actually to sell you a slab of plastic and silicon . It ’s to sell you an ecosystem , to glue you to their platform . That ’s why you may take their books on iPads , nooks , estimator , BlackBerrys , whatever . They do n’t care about the thing you ’re reading on , so long as they ’re trade what you ’re reading .

Here ’s the thing , if you ’re actually seek to resolve which ebook ecosystem to corrupt into , if you have n’t already : You should go with the ebook ecosystem that you call back will last , since all of your books that are n’t free are going to be tied up by DRM , and you do n’t want to wind up like the suckers who bought music files from Walmart when they close down their entrepot . Obviously , if you ’ve already buy a nook or Kindle , you ’ve made your decision . )

Barnes & Noble ’s app is , for many reasons , the best decent now . They ’re using themore universal ePub banner . But do you have any doubt Amazon ’s give out to amend their iPad app ? Amazon also owns 80 percent of the ebook market . Their ecosystem works well on a broad story , though you are very much locked to it , in part because of their proprietary file cabinet format . Say what you will about print , but at least your books will still work after the publishing firm become out of business . [ BN ]

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