Nate Anderson on the Nook Color:
The Nook Color is a nice first effort at an Android tablet from Barnes & Noble, though it would benefit from cutting back on the Christmas cookies. It has the potential to become more valuable still with a well-curated app store in the new year, but hints from Barnes & Noble have suggested that we’re likely to get things like reading-related cooking apps (which pair, conceptually at least, with cookbooks) rather than the sorts of tools that would give the Nook broader appeal.
It seems like Barnes and Noble can’t decide if it wants to compete with the Kindle, the iPad or both.