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Regardless Applec?ntricas polls, according to Digitimes Research company, during March of this year Nook, the apparatus of Barnes and Noble takes the crown with a 53% market share, dethroning the device Bezos, the Kindle.
One of the obvious reasons is that the bookstore chain B & N has more than 777 stores in the U.S., which allows the user to play and to interact physically with the Nook, unlike Amazon, that not having a physical presence in the real-life purchasing decisions based on comments and suggestions online.
B & N claims over a million books, newspapers and other content available, of which 500 thousand books are free. Amazon for its part has 400 thousand in total.
During the first four months of 2010, sold more than 1.43 million digital book readers that this figure is estimated to reach 2.02 million over the next few months, only in the U.S..
Globally, it is estimated that sales of these devices reach the 1140 units, 3.82 million more than in 2009.
