Barnes & Noble has shipped 1 million Nook Tablets so far. That’s a pretty impressive number, but that doesn’t mean that customers bought 1 million of them, but rather that Barnes & Noble received them from supplier Inventec, the same OEM that made the now defunct HP TouchPad. Unfortunately, that’s often the way these kinds [...]
The e-reader and tablet market will be heating up with increased competition on the pricing front in 2012 with manufacturers dropping the prices of their offerings. There are a number of factors that may attribute to the marked decline in prices–not being able to sell many tablets and compete against Apple’s iPad with iPad-like pricing [...]
Barnes & Noble just announced a $50 price drop on the Nook Color, bringing it down to $199. The price drop comes as the company introduces the Nook Tablet, a faster Android powered eReader that will take on the Kindle Fire. The Nook Color remains a good value, and will get many new features like [...]
The Nook Color isn’t going to the clearance bookshelf to make way for the Nook Tablet. Rather, Barnes and Noble is giving it a price drop and new features so that it can go head to head with the Kindle Fire. Right after we saw leaked specs and details for the Nook Tablet, Android Central shares a document [...]
eBooks and eReaders are big deals these days and about to become a bigger deal with the Kindle Fire and the Nook Color 2 going head to head in mid-November. And don’t forget Amazon has a range of devices to offer. While we’ve been able to read eBooks on digital devices for quite some time [...]
With the tablet market (or, as some would call it, the iPad market) getting most of the attention, it’s easy to forget about the eReader wars. The Kindle is still the most famous, but Barnes & Noble’s recent reboot of the Nook (along with the tablet hybrid Nook Color) has been turning a lot of heads as [...]
Nook Color owners have one more reason to run into their local Barnes & Noble store these days thanks to the inclusion of a real world element in the latest Angry Birds app which rewards users with a free Mighty Eagle character. In addition to the free hour of reading that Barnes & Noble gives Nook owners, [...]
Barnes & Noble is shipping its Nook The Simple Touch Reader, otherwise more informally referred to as the Nook 2nd Edition, ahead of its expected launch schedule on June 10th. In its press release, demo units should be in stores today and the Nook Simple Touch Reader has already begun to ship to customers who [...]
You may recall Steve Ballmer talking crazy a few months ago about how Android isn’t free and that you gotta pay Microsoft to use it. Well, now there are numbers to back that up ranging from HTC’s licensing fee of $5 a pop to asking prices of $7.50 to $12.50 from others.
Barnes & Noble had announced that in just over a week, users of the Android-based Nook Color reading tablet had downloaded over a million apps. The $250 tablet is seen as one of the best selling Android tablet for its sleek design and affordable price. When the Nook was originally released, it debuted on the [...]
There’s been chatter that Barnes & Noble is getting ready to introduce a second-generation e-ink-based Nook electronic reader to replace the original Nook. The new e-ink reader would be released help Barnes & Noble better compete against Amazon’s Kindle 3, which offers a newer, better electronic ink display that’s even easier on the eyes with [...]
The Nook Color eReader is also a nice Tablet that has made headway against the Kindle thanks to the inclusion of a color screen and a web browser. Now, the nook Color has another way to standout in a crowded eReader market – Apps. The long-awaited Nook Color app update has been released and delivers Android 2.2, [...]
Is the Barnes & Noble Nook Color Android-based dedicated color e-reading tablet the best selling tablet in North America outside of Apple’s iPad? This seems to be the case according to a report by DigiTimes, which says that the versatile and easily rooted and hackable tablet has managed to garner “over 50% of the iPad-like [...]
The Nook Color was launched as Barnes & Noble’s push into the color space with an Android-based e-reader touchscreen tablet, but the device has gained more versatile uses thanks to an enterprising developer community, including root access, Android 3.0 Honeycomb port, and the ability to run apps from Android Market, which was restricted by Barnes [...]
The Nook Color, launched and envisioned by Barnes & Noble as a dedicated e-reader that happens to also run on the Android operating system, has gotten more utility and functionality thanks to an enterprising community that expands the tablet’s use far beyond what its makers had envisioned thanks in large part to that underlying Android [...]
Already got an iPad tablet that will suffice for your e-reading pleasure and not aching to shell out money for Barnes & Noble’s customized and curated Android e-reader tablet dubbed the Nook Color? That’s okay, especially if you have kids as the bookseller has just announced that its children’s books are now being made available [...]
So, you got your wish and got a Tablet for Christmas. Perhaps it’s an iPad, or maybe a Samsung Galaxy Tab, or maybe some other Tablet/Slate. No matter, I’m sure you’re already up and running. You’ve pinched and zoomed, you browsed the web, you’ve probably listened to a bit of music and watched some video, [...]
The Nook Color is Barnes & Noble’s curated e-reading tablet experience running on top of the Android operating system and with a 7-inch color capacitive touchscreen. The hack requires users to root their device, essentially jailbreaking the Barnes & Noble Android experience, and then installing Android Market, the official Google app store for Android devices. [...]
Yesterday I got excited, as did quite a few others with news from Engadget that Barnes & Noble was going to update the Nook Color to Android 2.2 (Froyo) in January and add the Android Marketplace to the device. This would have in effect made the Nook Color a pretty decent Android Tablet/Slate, in fact [...]
Back in the days that I lived in Chicago it was a free fire zone in the Book Store wars. Downtown Chicago was certainly the centerpiece but in the area where I lived around Clark, Diversey and Halsted streets it was also full of action. Most of the book stores had a location in my [...]
As bookseller Borders is trying to create its own digital strategy, it may acquire Barnes & Noble to give it the boost needed to be competitive in the e-books space. The market right now is growing big, and we’re seeing Apple, Barnes & Noble, and more recently Google entering the space to compete in the [...]
Owners of Barnes & Noble’s digital e-ink reader, the Nook, in both WiFi and WiFi + 3G editions, can now upgrade their e-reader to run version 1.5 of the firmware, which promises to improve page turn speeds and bring a number of improvements. The faster page turn times will be greatly appreciated as the e-reader’s [...]
Gizmodo has a report that says the newly announced Nook Color eBook Reader that is Android 2.1 at its core might actually have what it takes to be a Tablet/Slate. The key here is what you use a Tablet/Slate for. But then that’s the key for all of these iPad wannabes and the iPad itself. [...]
Yes, the eBook Reader wars are still hot and heavy. It look likes Barnes & Noble is going all in by changing up its branding for its new eReader apps for multiple platforms. After christening its Android App as Nook for Android, B&N is now using the same Nook branding for all its reader apps [...]
The Wall Street Journal reported Barnes & Noble is putting itself up for sale so it can reorganize and figure out what to do as people are adopting eBooks at an accelerated pace. Barnes & Noble is largest bookstore chain in the U.S. with 720 retail stores, but it sounds like that number will shrink significantly over [...]
Everybody wants a piece of the eBook action. Yesterday we saw the great price drop for the Amazon Kindle and the Nook. Today we’re seeing Borders announce the availability of its eBook reading app for the iPad and the iPhone. From what I’m reading the Borders app doesn’t come with the syncing function that we [...]
One thing you can say about reading books on the iPad, you have some choice available to you as to what platform you want to read from. Obviously there is Apple’s iBooks reader and store, and I think everyone was pleasantly surprised when Amazon had its Kindle App available for that platform at the US [...]
Good news if you’ve got a Barnes & Noble nook: a new firmware update is finally unlocking that “Read in Store” feature, allowing you to read eBooks in the B&N like you do with the paper books. Also, web browsing and Sudoku!
It looks things over at Barnes & Noble are picking up. First, there was the announcement about the nook being carried at Best Buy. Now, it looks like there is going to be some new nooks on the block. According to an article over at Gizmodo, the nook 2 and a Wi-Fi only nook are [...]
In what is to my mind an very predictable outcome, Amazon.com is touting that on this Christmas Day, 2009 they sold more Kindle Books than print books for the first time ever. Well, given the really short life span of the Kindle that’s not too hard of a statement to make, I’m guessing. It is [...]
Late Saturday night I started seeing tweets from Gear Diary’s Judie Lipsett about her new Nook that finally arrived. Judie is not happy with the Nook. The title of her post sums it up: The Barnes & Noble nook; or how I managed to completely waste my Saturday on a piece of over-hyped hardware Ouch. [...]
For those interested in the Barnes & Noble Nook eBook reader quite a few reviews have popped out this morning. Most seem to verify some info that Sumocat posted over the weekend. The reviewers seem impressed with the hardware and the dual screen operation but seem to be finding the eInk screen slow and the [...]
Just when it seemed like everyone was all gushy about rolling out more eBook Readers than we can count, a legal battle looms. Spring Design, the makers of the Alex, is filing a trade secret lawsuit against Barnes & Noble over the design of the Nook. Spring Design claims that Barnes and Noble basically took [...]
Barnes & Noble continues with a both feet in to the deep end approach to the eBook market saying that it will not only have the Nook available in stores, but the Plastic Logic QUE on shelves as well. There’s a catch though. B&N will not be stocking the digital eBook Readers in every store. [...]
The Wall St. Journal is saying that the Barnes and Noble eBook Reader we’ve been seeing so much about lately will be released tomorrow at a price of $259. The two screen device (an e-ink screen for reading, and a color touch screen for navigation and media) will be called The Nook. You’ll also be [...]
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