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Barnes and Noble Orders 1.5 Million Nooks for Q4 2011

Barnes and Noble is serious about its position on the tablet and e-reader markets and isn't about to let any legal struggle stop it from ordering millions of them to be made. According to Digitimes, the producer of two of the most disruptive products on the tablet and e-reader market placed a total of 1.5 mill...

16 December 2011
13:11 GMT

About One Million B&N Nook Tablets Have Been Made So far

If anyone thought Barnes and Noble would actually see a great level of success with the Nook Tablet, they would be right. Based on what Digitimes found, B&N's tablet device has been selling better than anticipated, Microsoft patent trolling or no. Originally, it was predicted that about 800,000 Nook Tablet P...

9 December 2011
07:47 GMT

Liberty Media Wants to Buy Barnes and Noble

Reports haven't really been hinting at Barnes and Noble wanting to get bought off, but it looks like a certain company does want to acquire the book seller, or at least 70% of it.Barnes and Noble is known to be the biggest book seller in the United States, and it looks like this status has drawn the attention o...

21 May 2011
05:51 GMT

Barnes and Noble Might Be Making a New E-Reader

With all the attention invested in the tablet market, e-readers haven't been causing many ripples lately, but they haven't gone by ignored either, as it looks like a certain new model might appear soon.The thing about e-readers is that they are affordable, single-purpose (supposedly) electronics that anyon...

5 May 2011
04:47 GMT

Barnes and Noble Prepares the Nook 2 E-Reader

Barnes and Noble may not have escaped its share of legal problems, but it doesn't seem daunted in its efforts to keep up the e-reader work, as it is even implied that the next generation of the Nook is already on the way. Like Sony and market leader Amazon, Barnes and Noble was one of the first few companies to...

30 December 2010
08:43 GMT

NOOKcolor E-Reader from Barnes and Noble Out Ahead of Time

While color has been something that owners of e-readers have been waiting for, the wish was slow in actually being fulfilled, but it seems Barnes and Noble has finally gotten around to doing something of the sort, even several days ahead of schedule.E-readers really took off as a market once Amazon's Kindle, al...

16 November 2010
10:38 GMT

Nook Goes WiFi, Leaves 3G for a Much Lower Price

Late last year, it became obvious that electronic book readers had a bright future ahead of them. Noticing this, major bookstore chains and other companies started to work on e-readers of their own. For a time, Amazon, Sony and Barnes and Noble each owned one of the primary three such devices. Barnes and Noble, in p...

21 June 2010
08:22 GMT

Latest Nook Firmware Brings Games to E-Readers

Netbooks might have been the fastest growing market during 2009, but, now, their growth seems to have somewhat slowed down. This means that the market has begun to shift its focus away from this entry-level PC segment, thus giving other types of products the attention they are due. Among them is the now-established f...

23 April 2010
10:31 GMT

Barnes and Noble Nook 2 Incoming

After months and months of delays, insufficient inventories and inability to actually make it e-book reading gadget available in stores, Barnes and Noble seems to have finally resolved the famed Nook issues, to the point where it managed to deliver all orders and even make the e-reader available on BestBuy. This may ...

17 April 2010
06:17 GMT

B&N's Nook E-Reader Listed on BestBuy

After months of delays, insufficient inventories and the need for last resorts such as gift certificates and delivering on orders on a first-come-first-served basis, Barnes and Noble seems to have finally managed to get enough Nooks, or the demand has calmed down enough for the famed e-book-reading electronic to fina...

14 April 2010
06:05 GMT

Barnes and Noble Provides Content for Samsung's E-Reader

E-readers have only recently taken off as a market, but a significant number of models have already been previewed, showcased or launched. In most cases, however, the main issue with the devices, regardless of their functionality, is the availability, or the lack thereof, of purchasable online content. Samsung is amo...

10 March 2010
08:28 GMT

Nook Finally Approaches Stores

The Nook e-reader from Barnes and Noble has been receiving orders for several months, but the bookstore found its ability to meet those orders severely outmatched by the unexpectedly strong demand. Currently, the device is only available for purchase online, but it seems that it will finally be making it into shops t...

9 February 2010
06:43 GMT

Nook Gets Delayed and Updated at the Same Time

The reality at Barnes and Noble seems to be bittersweet. One again, the Nook e-reader is in danger, or rather the ones that placed orders are in danger of not getting their shipment on time. The bookstore chain may still have trouble coping with the demand for the device, prompting the need for some kind of compensat...

21 December 2009
09:07 GMT

Nook Shipment Delayed Yet Again, Barnes and Noble Swamped with Work

Barnes and Noble seems to be too successful for its own good. Even though December is already upon us and the world-leading book seller has been trying its hardest to get its Nook E-Book readers into stores, it has been foiled at every turn by its own product's popularity. Although Monday was supposed to mark th...

5 December 2009
05:55 GMT

Barnes and Noble Nook E-Book Readers Sold Out Before Release

Not long after Sony stated that it wouldn't be able to keep up with the demand for its Daily Edition e-readers, Barnes and Noble, the world's largest seller of books, made a similar announcement concerning its Nook e-book readers. According to the book distributor, even though the official release date hasn...

23 November 2009
02:36 GMT


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