If a generous friend or family member has Nook waiting under the tree for you this year, you’re far from the only one. Barnes & Noble is expected to have shipped approximately 60,000 of their new eReaders before the year is out; not bad considering the shortage. We can only guess how many they could have sold if they had instructed their manufacturing partner, Foxconn, to build more of the gadgets out of the gate.

Barnes & Noble has pushed back preorders several times, and is now offering a $100 gift cards if preordered Nooks don’t ship by today (December 23). After the fiasco the holiday buying season has been, B&N is directing Foxconn to increase production. The bookseller claims Nook sales could hit 500,000 in 2010. The original Kindle only sold 400,000 in its first year. Though, admittedly that was before the large second generation price drops.

One has to wonder if people will still be buying Nooks at this rate when there are units readily available in stores for people to use. The software experience is reportedly a bit buggy and page refreshes are slow. If Barnes and Noble can work out these problems, the Kindle may have something to fear from the Nook. For now, we’ll just have to wait and see.

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