New eReader App and Updates

The Unofficial Apple Weblog reviewed Barnes & Noble's new eReader app today, and it doesn't look pretty.

This is a bad product debut. It has an onerous and ill-thought out sign up routine, lousy selection and many prices are way too high.

I had to test the veracity of the reviewer's claim about the cost of the books, so I did a search for Neil Gaiman's books in the B&N reader and the Kindle store. I found that the prices for books in the Kindle store were several dollars less without exception and