NOOK Takes To The Web, Dangles Free Bestellers As Carrot
If NOOK for Web sounds a little like Amazon's Kindle Cloud Reader, that's because it is. One area where NOOK has a leg up is that it supports Internet Explorer (as well as Chrome, Firefox, and Safari), where as Kindle Cloud Reader doesn't yet support IE. Kindle also requires an account, where NOOK doesn't, but given that accounts are free for either service, the advantage of account-less reading won't matter much to some.
Importantly, NOOK for Web syncs your books, meaning that you can read a few pages on your NOOK device, move to your computer, and pick up where you left off when you visit www.mynook.com.
You can check out the free bestsellers at www.nook.com/NOOKforWeb, but not forever. B&N ends the gravy train July 26th.