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Barnes & Noble has decided that it was finally time for an update to its two best-selling electronic book readers: Nook Simple Touch and Simple Touch with GlowLight.
Some may remember that, back in 2011 when it was released, Nook Simple Touch shipped with a limited, hidden web browser.
B&N subsequently removed th... |
20 May 2013
02:59 GMT |
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You have most likely heard that tech giant Microsoft is now trying to take over the Nook Media business from Barnes & Noble, even though it’s not yet clear why.
While such an acquisition could help the company develop its own eReader, it could also bring Microsoft a significant advantage in the fight against t... |
9 May 2013
10:52 GMT |
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is out for shopping these days, with sources familiar with the matter now claiming that the Softies are planning to take over Noble’s Nook Media division.
Even though there are no official details on this, TechCrunch reports that Microsoft is willing to pay as much as $1 billion (&e... |
9 May 2013
01:36 GMT |
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Barnes & Noble's Nook product collection may have started out with e-book readers, but eventually the bookstore chain released an Android tablet (though it called it Nook Color e-reader), and followed up with some real slates.
The Nook HD tablets were the latest, but they didn't really amount to much, eve... |
3 May 2013
03:43 GMT |
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Barnes & Noble has released NOOK 3.4.1, a new update for iPhone and iPad customers adding a lot of bug fixes for some widely-reported crashes. A crash that occurs when opening books in landscape mode has been addressed. The error happened when "Animate Page Turns" was switched ON and "Two Page Landscape" was OFF. A... |
29 April 2013
15:01 GMT |
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Barnes & Noble has just announced a new campaign that would bring Windows 8 users who install its official application five free books and magazines for a limited time.The books can be downloaded on any Windows 8 device, so you can easily read them on a desktop computer, laptop or tablet running Microsoft’s new... |
27 March 2013
20:41 GMT |
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The popular NOOK app from Barnes & Noble which lets you access over 3 million books, magazines, newspapers, etc., now supports NOOK Comics and offers a nifty ZoomView for a close up, panel-by-panel view of the story in a sequence as the author intended.
In addition to the aforementioned key enhancements that NOOK 3.... |
26 March 2013
09:45 GMT |
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Barnes & Noble had good e-reader sales a couple of years ago, but things have changed a lot, and even its newest tablets have failed to reignite customer interest. Over the past month, we have learned of plans to abandon Nook Devices altogether and go private. Just which of these things happen depends on how much... |
23 March 2013
05:41 GMT |
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A few days ago, we reported that B&N might be thinking of totally scrapping the Nook hardware division, and now we know why.
The murmurs about a private acquisition were part of it, but not the core reason.
In the end, the cause behind the rumors is much more straightforward: big financial losses.
B&N finished ... |
28 February 2013
10:13 GMT |
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Barnes & Noble has been a bookstore chain for a long time, but it performed some courageous inroads into the hardware and software market. The Nook line of e-readers and tablets has made the news quite often. The Nook HD and HD+ are fairly new items even. Sadly, the company is reportedly preparing to drop the who... |
26 February 2013
11:13 GMT |
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Last we heard, nook sales were very weak for Barnes & Noble. Now we are faced with the high probability that the devices, or at least most of them, will go extinct.
Opinions are divided on this matter, it seems. While The New York Times reports a likelihood for B&N to stop making hardware, CNET differs.
"We have ... |
25 February 2013
05:26 GMT |
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Barnes & Nobles's fiscal year 2013 will end on April 27, which is quite far off, but the bookstore chain already knows roughly what will happen.
After weak holiday sales of Nook HD and HD+ tablets, as well as declining e-reader shipments, the company will suffer a loss above the $262 million / 196 million Euro... |
14 February 2013
05:53 GMT |
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The official Nook for Windows 8 app released by Barnes & Noble has just received an update to support Microsoft accounts.
Even though that may sound like a useless improvement for some users, it’s actually a pretty helpful feature supposed to simplify the overall reading and shopping experience when running th... |
5 February 2013
14:01 GMT |
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Barnes & Noble couldn't just let Christmas come and go without some sort of acknowledgment, so it has prepared a treat for its customers. This weekend, 15-16 December 2012, everyone who buys a Nook HD tablet (7-inch) or a Nook HD+ (9-inch) will receive free B&N gift cards worth $20 / 15 Euro. The offer is av... |
14 December 2012
10:26 GMT |
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Being one of the first three companies to promote e-readers has its perks, and it doesn't hurt that tablets have also been selling under the same brand as the other devices. Barnes & Noble is the living proof of that. B&N's Nook devices (e-book readers and tablets) have never managed to outsell Amazon... |
30 November 2012
03:14 GMT |
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iDevice owners enjoying an elegant reading experience with the NOOK application from Barnes & Noble have a new update to install. British English speakers finally have it their way, as do those who speak French, Italian, German and Spanish.
Update 3.3.0 adds new language support for British English, French, Italian,... |
27 November 2012
04:28 GMT |
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Since this is Black Friday, a lot of products are selling for less than the usual fare. This much has been obvious for days, since Dell, Sony and many others have lowered the prices of many products for a short time.
It turns out that Barnes & Noble is doing the same to the Nook Simple Touch e-book reader.
For on... |
23 November 2012
07:41 GMT |
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It was back in September (2012) when the Nook Simple Touch and Paperwhite e-readers from Barnes & Noble reached the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The tablets are finally following suit.
It has been almost two months since the formal launch of the Nook HD and Nook HD+ tablets, a long time to ... |
22 November 2012
05:07 GMT |
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Nook fans, rejoice! The official Nook app developed by Barnes and Noble has just landed on the Windows 8 platform and can be downloaded right now from the Store. Just as expected, the app comes with plenty of goodies for all Nook owners and it plays two different roles. First of all, it’s an eReader that allo... |
15 November 2012
20:11 GMT |
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Now that the winter holidays are approaching, people are bound to buy all sorts of presents, so B&N figured it would be a good idea to offer an extra reason for everyone to look at the Nook Color and Nook Tablet.
Nook Color was and still is advertised as a color e-reader, but its hardware and software are those of a... |
5 November 2012
04:44 GMT |
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Barnes & Noble has some good news for those who are getting one of its Nook HD tablets: the products will have access to online video content, courtesy of NBCUniversal and 20th Century Fox.
B&N signed the deals just a short time ago, according to CNET, and expects both Nook HD and Nook HD+ to let their future owner... |
30 October 2012
11:03 GMT |
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Barnes&Noble's Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight managed to stay up for order at $139 for a while, but that time is over, and it's all Amazon's fault.
Not that we are in any way upset over it. If anything, we are glad to see the Kindle Paperwhite out and about at last, as it gave the Nook something to... |
1 October 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Launching the Nook HD and Nook HD+ tablets wasn't enough of a show for Barnes & Noble. The bookstore chain has also made a move involving the Nook Simple Touch and Simple Touch GlowLight. The e-readers have been selling in the United States for some time now, but B&N is now taking them to Europe, specifically ... |
26 September 2012
05:52 GMT |
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After the first Nook “tablet” got advertised as a color e-reader, and then an actual Nook Tablet insisted on keeping as many e-reader features as possible, Barnes & Noble may finally be changing their tune.
The folks at Digital Trends claim that their sources have “confirmed” that a new Nook... |
10 September 2012
09:05 GMT |
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E-readers and e-reading software have become quite widespread, but that does not mean there is a great variety of such things, and Barned & Noble wants to do something about it.
Competing with Amazon's Kindle lineup of hardware and software comes with the territory of being a bookstore chain with its own e-boo... |
20 August 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Barnes & Noble probably hoped it would weather the year without having to cut the prices of its gadgets again, but the newest 7-inch Android-loaded tablet has given it no other recourse.
Should one drop by the Barnes & Noble web store, they will notice that the standard prices of the slates are crossed out.
Next ... |
13 August 2012
02:44 GMT |
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Barnes & Noble has been remarkably fit at fighting Amazon, at least in the digital department. The Nook reader is the only viable competitor to the Kindle and is seen as a superior device by some. The new partnership with Microsoft may also mean more exposure and growth. But there's still plenty to do. The comp... |
17 July 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Today, Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is set to make a “major announcement” during a media event planned for Los Angeles at 6:30 pm EST. Ever since the company unveiled plans to hold this event, we’ve seen a lot of speculation on what it might be all about, including rumors ranging from a p... |
18 June 2012
05:33 GMT |
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Today, Microsoft and Barnes & Noble announced a new partnership aimed at accelerating the transition to e-reading, the new way in which people consume, create, share and enjoy digital content.The partnership will materialize with the creation of a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary, currently referred to as Newco, the two... |
30 April 2012
07:26 GMT |
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When Barnes & Noble launched its first e-reader, it got so many orders that it was unable to deliver most of them on time.
Now, something similar is set to happen with the Nook GlowLight, a version of the Nook Simple Touch that has front lighting as well.
Essentially, it retains the clarity and aspect of the E Ink ... |
26 April 2012
10:19 GMT |
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If anyone was wondering what in the world Barnes & Noble was doing lately, the answer is upon us.
Essentially, they made a new Nook product, but not an e-reader.
For the confused, we mean that the bookstore chain is now using the Nook brand for things besides e-readers and tablets.
Sure, the Nook Audio OE250 is me... |
19 April 2012
10:33 GMT |
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Barnes & Noble may not have managed to get its Nook e-readers the same level of fame as Amazon got its Kindles, but it still has a loyal fanbase.
In other words, the bookstore chain has a pretty stable ecosystem, so it makes sense that it would be devising a new e-reader.
According to The Digital Reader, the next-g... |
12 April 2012
10:51 GMT |
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One of the main reasons behind the big sales gap between Amazon's Kindle e-readers and B&N's Nook is that Barnes & Noble does not have a worldwide presence like the former.
Things have now changed: B&N has started a new company in Germany, called Barnes & Noble Digital Media GmbH.
The filing procedure was... |
29 March 2012
09:59 GMT |
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Since the Nook e-reader and Nook Tablet have been doing so well, Barnes & Noble has been lobbying for a way to expand its reach.The company wants to have its Nook products sent to countries besides the United States.The upcoming event in London, scheduled for March 19 this year (2012), may just be the first step in t... |
6 March 2012
09:49 GMT |
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We may have already mentioned a certain deal that Barnes & Noble has decided to offer, but the company has now made the official announcement, one that reveals a second product change as well.
It is easy enough to summarize B&N's latest marketing maneuver as an attempt to face Amazon a bit more directly on the... |
21 February 2012
16:31 GMT |
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The CyonagenMod team has been working very eagerly on custom builds of the Android operating system from Google, one of which is intended for the Nook Tablet.
There is more than one CyanogenMod software project in development, but the one getting attention this time is the CyanogenMod 7.
Aimed at the Barnes & Nob... |
6 February 2012
07:25 GMT |
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It appears that at least one competitor on the e-reader and tablet market has seen enough success to seriously consider big plans for the future.
Barnes and Noble have recently published their financial results, but what may stand out most is the part about future plans.
Granted, all the praise that the Nook Color... |
6 January 2012
09:30 GMT |
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Not happy about the newest limitations imposed upon Nook Tablet owners, a member of the XDA-Developers forum took it upon himself to find a way to revert the changes.
Firmware updates are usually something that users should look forward to.
After all, provided something didn't go horribly wrong during develo... |
23 December 2011
08:04 GMT |
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Looks like Barnes and Noble may have finally finished customizing the software of the Nook Tablet so that it stands apart from all other slates, although this may not be such a good thing.
Giving a product a feature or two that makes it stand out among others of its kind is all well and good.
Alas, this is not exa... |
20 December 2011
10:25 GMT |
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There is a lot decidedly un-e-reader-like about the Nook Color from Barnes and Noble and now there is even more to make it qualify almost perfectly as a tablet.
Barnes and Noble just officially announced an update to the software of their Nook Color e-reader.
The item already had a hard enough time of continuing t... |
12 December 2011
09:47 GMT |
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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 |
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During the company’s second quarter earnings announcement, Barnes & Noble revealed that its recently launched 7-inch Nook Tablet powered by the Android OS has become the fastest selling Nook in the company’s history.Barnes & Noble hasn’t provided any figures to back up this claim, but it did say tha... |
1 December 2011
11:07 GMT |
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One of the great joys of playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is finding and reading the in-game books, usually well-written and interesting short fiction works that detail the backstory of the universe and sometimes enhance the knowledge of one character or another.
One major problem with them is that reading takes ... |
28 November 2011
07:00 GMT |
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Amazon's Kindle may have gotten a lot of attention from the media recently, but Barnes & Noble is not about to fall too far behind, having also taken steps towards the further promotion of its existing products. Amazon has fresh e-readers and even a tablet on the market now, such as it is, though the Kindle to... |
4 October 2011
10:21 GMT |
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Barnes and Noble could be said to be already selling a tablet, even if it is advertised as an e-reader, but new reports say that a trio of new such things might be on the way.
Either the tablet market is too appealing or the prospect of multi-feature e-readers is too good to pass up because, according to a new ru... |
26 September 2011
04:33 GMT |
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Seeing as how the so-called back-to-school season is up and running, promotions are, as expected, showing up, with B&N setting up one of its own, meant to encourage sales of its Nook e-reader.Users that have been keeping track of the e-reader market will obviously know of the Nook from Barnes & Noble.Though the past... |
10 August 2011
05:21 GMT |
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The Nook e-reader may be making the news, but it might just be that sales aren't as high as the bookstore chain might like, considering the most recent marketing move on its part. While tablets do seem to be grabbing much of the consumer base's attention nowadays, other things aren't exactly going by... |
2 July 2011
04:10 GMT |
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Although Amazon's Kindle has mostly led the e-reader market since the race began, it looks like Barnes & Noble has finally snatched the leading place in the ongoing struggle, or so reports suggest. E-readers are one of those market segments that managed to increase in profile by quite a great deal over the pas... |
18 June 2011
04:29 GMT |
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Barnes and Noble have finally gotten around to releasing a new version of their Nook e-reader, and it looks like the newcomer has quite the feature set for something which sells for $139.This once, it is not Amazon that provided a new electronic, but Barnes and Noble, its Nook having gotten an overhaul.This is not a... |
25 May 2011
06:07 GMT |
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Barnes and Noble may not have changed the hardware specs of the Nook Color e-book reader, but it looks like it came up with a software tweak that drastically limits how much space one can devote to music and sideloaded content.Those that have the habit of reading books in electronic format will definitely know of a ... |
23 May 2011
09:13 GMT |
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