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Nook for Windows 8? Microsoft and Barnes & Noble Settle, Buddy Up

Microsoft and Barnes & Noble are joining hands to form a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary that'll be dubbed "Newco" (get it?) until someone comes up with a better name. The "strategic" venture, into which Microsoft says it will pour $300 million, is designed to "accelerate the transition to e-reading," as well as symbolically lay to rest a patent dispute that's been ongoing since March 2011.

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Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight Review: An E-Reader That’s Not Afraid of the Dark

Nook Simple Touch With GlowLight

Well-done, built-in illumination makes this the E Ink reader to get if you want to read in bed.

Nook Tablet Gets New $200 Starting Price, Locks Horns with Kindle Fire

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Until now, the general sentiment has been that Barnes & Noble’s 7-inch Nook Tablet is a great option for a low-price Android tablet… if only it didn’t cost $50 more than Amazon’s 7-inch Kindle Fire tablet. Starting today, there’s a new version of the Nook Tablet available for $199, putting it directly in line with the Kindle Fire’s $199 price tag.

New Nook Rumored for Springtime

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Well here’s an interesting tidbit from the New York Times‘ latest feature on Barnes & Noble: A new Nook is in development, and should be released this spring.

Barnes and Noble Unveils New ‘Nook’ Tablet for $249

Bookseller Barnes and Noble has revamped its popular 7-inch color e-book reader today. Simply called the Nook Tablet, the new version will sell for $249 starting next week, and features a 1GHz dual-core processor to power playback of HD movies, videos and TV shows. There will be a host of apps and games available at [...]

E-Book Sales Rise More than 1,000% Since 2008

Well, here’s one growth industry in the middle of our dire economic straits: According to a new survey of sales revenue provided by more than 2,000 publishers in the U.S., book sales are rising, with e-book revenue growing a surprising 1,274% between 2008 and 2010.

Barnes & Noble eBooks Outsell Print Books Three to One

For those who still think that eBooks aren’t going to last, you might want to talk to Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch, who told investors on a conference call yesterday that his company’s digital books now outsell all formats of its print books—combined—by a factor of three to one.

Amazon Drops Starting Price of 3G-Enabled Kindle to $164

In response to Barnes & Noble’s impressively small and simple touchscreen “Nook” e-reader announcement from yesterday, Amazon made an announcement of its own: an ad-supported Kindle with a built-in 3G connection for $164. The price for the device without ads is $189.

Barnes & Noble Intros Small, Simple Touchscreen E-Reader

Barnes & Noble has rolled out a new black-and-white e-book reader to its “Nook” line. The $139 device touts the longest battery life of any e-book reader on the market—up to two months—and measures five inches wide by 6.5 inches long, with a weight of just five ounces.

Barnes and Noble Will Announce a New E-Reader May 24th

In case you haven’t heard, Barnes & Noble’s flagship Nook Color recently got a great big overhaul with an Android-powered OS update. The results were so impressive, in fact, that Technologizer’s Harry McCracken went so far to christen the Nook as “something that the Motorola Xoom and BlackBerry PlayBook aren’t: an iPad alternative with a coherent, fully-baked answer to the [...]

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Nook Color Now Emphasizes the ‘Tablet’ in ‘Reader’s Tablet’

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