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.
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New Nook Rumored for Springtime
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.
The Times‘ story, which cites unnamed executives, elaborated no …
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 launch as well. Angry …
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.
Revenue on e-books reached $878 million in 2010, with sales hitting …
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.
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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.
Amazon rolled out a Wi-Fi version of the “Kindle with Special …
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.
The new Nook features a six-inch electronic-ink screen similar …
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 …
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Nook Color Now Emphasizes the ‘Tablet’ in ‘Reader’s Tablet’
This article has been cross-posted from our partner site, Technologizer.
A little over a week ago, I wondered whether the world needed tablets that were significantly less costly and significantly less fancy than the iPad and its most prominent rivals. A couple of commenters said that such a beast already existed: Barnes & Noble’s …
Nook Readers Get Free Access to NYTimes.com, Too
The battle between the Kindle and Nook just took another competitive twist.
Refusing to be outdone by Amazon, Barnes & Noble has announced that readers who subscribe to the New York Times via the Nook will receive free, unlimited access to the paper’s site.
Of course, the announcement comes just one week after Kindle subscribers …
Taiwan Airport Opens World’s First In-Transit E-Library
Nobody likes layovers, especially long and boring ones. But if you happen to have a stopover at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, you at least can rent an e-book to keep you company.
The library, which opened last week, features about 30 iPads and other devices that each offer 400 titles, as well as 2,000 physical Chinese and …
Nook 2011 Sales Already 150% Up On 2010
Periodical sales on the iPad may not be growing, but not every tablet reader has that problem. Barnes & Noble’s NOOKnewsstand is reporting that it has already sold 150% more subscriptions since Christmas 2010 than in the previous twelve months combined, with 650,000 new subscriptions in the last month alone.
The Nooknewsstand offers …