http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/quick-note-nook-sold-out-for-the-holidays/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/quick-note-nook-sold-out-for-the-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-1149515 Dan E. Bloom Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:28:10 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=32546#comment-1149515 Paul, it's funny, and I know it's a minor case, almost every US newspaper and website CAPS the first N in nook, just because that's the way most stylebooks and copydesks and editors think. So of course, it can be written out as "Nook" instead of "nook". But funny, just today I was reading a story in the local Chinese-langauge newspaper here in Taiwan, APPLE DAILY, and the article in Mandarin was about the Kindle and the nook and the SONY Reader, and as is usual for Chinese-language snailpapers and websites, when they come to a foreign word, especially an untranslatble English word like BlackBerry, or Kindle, or noo, the editors spell the word out in roman letters, ABC-style, and in this article today, Kindle was CAPPED, as was SONY Reader, just like that, but nook was lowercased, as the Barnes and Noble logo says it should be. What does this mean? Nothing. Just a story from overseas where nook is lowercased. Paul, it’s funny, and I know it’s a minor case, almost every US newspaper and website CAPS the first N in nook, just because that’s the way most stylebooks and copydesks and editors think. So of course, it can be written out as “Nook” instead of “nook”. But funny, just today I was reading a story in the local Chinese-langauge newspaper here in Taiwan, APPLE DAILY, and the article in Mandarin was about the Kindle and the nook and the SONY Reader, and as is usual for Chinese-language snailpapers and websites, when they come to a foreign word, especially an untranslatble English word like BlackBerry, or Kindle, or noo, the editors spell the word out in roman letters, ABC-style, and in this article today, Kindle was CAPPED, as was SONY Reader, just like that, but nook was lowercased, as the Barnes and Noble logo says it should be. What does this mean? Nothing. Just a story from overseas where nook is lowercased.

]]> http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/quick-note-nook-sold-out-for-the-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-1149463 Danny Bloom Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:57:46 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=32546#comment-1149463 nook. lowercase. not Nook. nook. I will go on repeating this to my dying day. nook. try it, you'll like it. language does not have to follow hard and fast rules. the nook people lowercased it on purpose. so did e.e. cummings. if you keep uppercasing Nook, i will start signing my name dan e. bloom nook. lowercase. not Nook. nook. I will go on repeating this to my dying day. nook. try it, you’ll like it. language does not have to follow hard and fast rules. the nook people lowercased it on purpose. so did e.e. cummings. if you keep uppercasing Nook, i will start signing my name dan e. bloom

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