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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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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 |
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A certain device from Barnes and Noble may very well be one of the more controversial, in a good way, devices on the market, since it can be seen as an-reader, a tablet or a hybrid of both.The Nook Color from Barnes and Noble may be sold under the title of e-reader, but it seems to be veering closer and closer to fu... |
29 April 2011
05:41 GMT |
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The Nook Color is one of those devices that partially fit into both the e-reader and the tablet product categories, and it looks like its maker expects a lot from it if certain rumors are true.Barnes and Noble may have been having troubles of the legal sort over the past few months, but this doesn't seem to hav... |
28 March 2011
05:58 GMT |
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It appears that launching new products is not all that is happening on the market, as certain devices seem to be nearing the end of their lives, like a certain device form Barnes and Noble.Barnes and Noble is known for being a very large bookstore chain, possessing a very encompassing collection of tomes of various ... |
25 January 2011
06:02 GMT |
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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 |
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It appears that history is repeating itself as far as Barnes and Noble is concerned, as quite a few users of the Nook e-reader found that they were unable to make the best of their devices due to server issues.Late least year, around the same holidays as the ones happening now, two things happened to B&N's e-re... |
27 December 2010
06:00 GMT |
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The Nook Color e-reader is quite a phenomenon on the IT market, and while it comes with risks when users try to hack it, Barnes and Noble is working towards removing the necessity for hacks.The Nook Color e-reader is one of the first e-book readers that is equipped with a color display, a touchscreen with a resoluti... |
14 December 2010
10:58 GMT |
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While other players are trying to push their new e-readers to market, Barnes and Noble is updating its own offering, the latest firmware being one that brings several enhancements and new features to the electronic.When it first came out, the Nook had Barnes and Noble in something of an impasse because demand was mu... |
23 November 2010
05:15 GMT |
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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 |
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eReaders and tablets seem to be some of the hottest topics in tech right now so why not combine the two inside a single device, Barnes & Noble just introducing the $249 NookColor eReader that features a full-color touchscreen display as well as wireless Internet access to redefine the border between the eBook readers... |
27 October 2010
08:42 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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