Amazon is stating they’ve sold “millions” of Kindles and that — you know what? Here’s the statement below. Just read it yourself:
Amazon:
Thanks to you, in just the first 73 days of this holiday quarter, we’ve already sold millions of our all-new Kindles with the latest E Ink Pearl display. In fact, in the last 73 days, readers have purchased more Kindles than we sold during all of 2009. We’re grateful for and energized by the overwhelming customer response.
“Millions” means more than 1 million, so I guess they’ve sold millions of new Kindle 3s. Supposedly.
Via: Daring Fireball
That is all to say. Google eBooks is eBook reading in the style of Google, that is to say, in the cloud. You can buy books which can be read in any Webkit-compatible web browser, an Android or iOS app, or on the web browsers of mobile phones. The site is built on Java and has 4,000 U.S publishers inside, with up to 35,000 internationally.
The Nook Color, Barnes & Noble’s new nook revealed today in NYC, will be broken down for your easy reading pleasure: it’s based off Android, uses a 7-inch IPS touchscreen with 1024 x 600 resolution at 169 pixels per inch, has 8GB of built-in storage and micro-SD card that can support up to 32GB slot, a 3.5mm headphone jack, Wi-Fi b/g/n (not 3G at all), micro USB port, and will support several third-party apps such as Pandora, Chess, a media player, and a kid’s eBookStore. It all costs $249 and ships November 19th. Via: 
The successor to the Amazon Kindle 2 — in other words — thinner, lighter, less expensive, and Wi-Fi enabled, with the same 6-inch screen but with 50% better contrast and a 21% smaller footprint with 20% faster page turns. There’s also double the built-in memory — 4GB. The pricing is $189 for Wi-Fi plus 3G model and $139 Wi-Fi only.
Barnes & Noble already has BN eReader apps for both the iPad and iphone, which are in essence, NOOK apps. Starting today at the Android Market or http://www.bn.com/nookforandroid, the free 
