eBook Readers: Grr.

After considering a lot of different strategies for some of the sites I am running, I've decided that KnowProSE.com will go the direction that it had fallen into years ago - book reviews and so forth. While the site itself was lost some time ago, it wasn't specialized - something that is required for a site to generate money. But generating money doesn't make a good site.

Since I fully intend to buy a Barnes and Noble Nook, I decided that I should probably look at the affiliate program for Barnes and Noble again - especially considering that in the past, Barnes and Noble hasn't bothered to allow direct linking to products in the manner that Amazon.com does. In fact, when it came to selling actual products, Amazon.com has always lead the way.

In checking this evening about how Barnes and Noble does things, I was surprised to find that their new method for allowing affiliates involved going through Google's Adsense. And of course I still don't know if Barnes and Noble has begun taking their affiliate program seriously - whereas I know that Amazon.com's affiliate program seems even less so with each passing year (especially with not permitting book review links on their site).

And so I wonder whether it's really worth it. I like more than just Amazon as a supplier of electronic books - and I'm not sure that the Kindle DX Wireless Reading Device will ever allow the sharing of books as the Nook does.

So... can't they actually come up with an eBook reader that has a decent economy built around it (a la Kindle) with more respect for customers (a la Nook)? Why are these camps so separate?

And why am I stuck in the middle of the two?