No Nook Under The Tree This Holiday Season

We got caught up in the nook buzz a bit. And To Barnes and Noble's credit, it was due to the genuine enthusiasm of an associate in one of their retail stores, that we had penciled in Nov 30th as nook preview day. But it looks like our hopes of playing with a nook this year have been dashed. B&N has announced orders placed now will be fulfilled on January 4th at the earliest.

And so Amazon and the Kindle can breathe easy for this holiday season. Next year, it'll be a whole different ball game, with the nook being ready to rock. Of course, a certain other company might have a tablet product out by then, which could make the whole thing moot.