Will B&N's Christmas Nook Fail Hurt Its Big Comeback?

With Kindle 3 sales becoming the most popular item ever sold on Amazon, we can safely say that the eReader arrived this holiday season.

With all of the eReader gifting going on, Barnes & Noble lost big time by having its servers fail to sell eBooks over the Christmas holiday weekend. For a company that has been banking on its new color eReader to bail it out of trouble, this was a major loss.

And they should have been prepared for this, after they faced the same problem last year, when eReaders were a lot less popular.

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