Barnes & Noble -- clueless, or trying to be subliminal?

[gmoney]

First, they had their answer to the Kindle... the Nook E-Reader (Nookie reader?)

Now they have an electronic publishing service named... PubIt!

Presumably they pronounce "Pub" as in "publish" to rhyme with club. However, shouldn't "pubit" rhyme with "cubit" ? Pube It? It also seems to recall the word "pubic" as well.

This seems more clueless than Apple's iPad even. Or perhaps someone thinks these names sound sexy?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

1. I think you're overthinking it....

...and may be a little pervy. :shrug:
:evilgrin:

[gmoney]

2. Well, as the patient said to the guy conducting the Rorshach test

"YOU'RE the one with all the dirty pictures!"

[hippywife]

3. Actually, I agree with Ducky.

Because it's spelled PubIt, with a capital I, I think I would pronounce it the way it was intended.

[WinkyDink]

4. Yes, YOU would, but then there's the rest of us! (And it IS amazingly stupid.)

It should be ePub.

[hippywife]

5. That already exists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB

as does Publish-iT.

And PublishIt would have taken us right back where we started.

[WinkyDink]

6. That last was probably trying to give the prospective reader a hint.

[rug]

7. At least they didn't namer it Bookakke.

[gmoney]

8. LOL

[Odin2005]

9. Get your mind out of the gutter.

And who uses the term "nookie" for sex anymore?