Barnes & Noble expects to ship 60,000 Nooks in 2009

According to a recent report over on TechCrunch, it looks like Barnes & Noble is expecting to ship 60,000 Nook ebook readers this year. And keep in mind this is just the units that are expected to ship, there was not any estimate given as to how many additional orders were placed in 2009 and are still sitting and waiting shipment sometime in early 2010. That said, it is also being estimated that Barnes & Noble is expecting to sell “half a million Nooks in the first three months of 2010.” All things considered, it seems the Kindle may have found a rival, and just for reference the Kindle sold about 400,000 units in the first year.

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