Barnes Noble said that high demand for its Nook e-reader delayed the shipment date into January 2010 for anyone ordering the devices after Nov. 20. This is the second time that Barnes Noble announced a delay for its e-readers, which it hopes will make inroads against Amazon.com’s popular Kindle line. The e-reader market as a whole has become increasingly fragmented as both large companies and smaller startups release devices.
– Thanks to what it calls high demand, Barnes amp; Noble
announced on Nov. 20 that people ordering its Nook e-reader after that date
would have to wait until the first week of January 2010 for their devices to
arrive. While that news is perhaps a good sign for the health of the e-reader
market ov…