Barnes and Noble has been at the forefront of reaching out to consumers and drawing them into the B&N family, such as through established company protocols that use special offers to entice Nook owners into Barnes and Noble physical locations and by offering a range of e-readers with features that meet different readers’ needs. Now,  [ Read More ]

Barnes and Noble has issued a new firmware update for its 1st generation Nook WIFI and Nook 3G. The company said the new 1.7 update will only contain minor system update. The new update is being pushed over Wireless for the WIFI only model and via 3G for the oldest model. There is really nothing  [ Read More ]

Barnes & Noble may have devised a brilliant marketing move to get customers into their physical stores. B&N announced that its more than 700 bookstores across the country will be offering the first official Angry Birds “Magic Places” for NOOK Color customers. Beginning today, NOOK Color customers with the bestselling Angry Birds NOOK App can,  [ Read More ]

Barnes & Noble reported sales and earnings today. For fiscal 2011, total sales increased 20% to a record billion. Sales growth was fueled by inclusion of a full year of sales from Barnes & Noble College Booksellers (“College”) as well as a 50% sales increase at BN.com. The rapidly growing digital business propelled the top-line  [ Read More ]

Welcome to a exclusive Good e-Reader Video Review! Today we take a look at the new Barnes and Noble Nook 2 – A Simple Touch Reader. This is the brand new six inch touchscreen e-ink e-reader from book giant Barnes and Noble. The Barnes and Noble Nook 2 is being billed as the simplest e-reader  [ Read More ]

  The official name of Barnes & Noble’s newest ereader offering is the All-New Nook, The Simple Reader.  For those of us who do not work in B&N’s marketing department this is rather a mouthful, so for brevity’s sake I’ll refer to the new ereader here as the Nook Touch. The Simple Touch Reader is,  [ Read More ]

Barnes & Noble has announced an updated version of its popular, free NOOK for Android eReading application that brings the most comprehensive selection of digital periodicals to customers with Android tablets including more than 140 top magazine and newspaper brands from ESPN The Magazine and The Economist to Food & Wine and Us Weekly.  NOOK  [ Read More ]

Barnes & Noble is expanding its bestselling digital reading offering with the All-New NOOK, The Simple Touch Reader. With a full touchscreen, NOOK features an extra-long battery life on the portable 6-inch eReader with the most-advanced E Ink Pearl display, and the world’s largest bookstore available by Wi-Fi. But it’s not available just yet. You can  [ Read More ]

  Barnes & Noble announced today that cable and media conglomerate Liberty Media has made a bid to purchase the company for per share in cash. From the press release: The proposal is subject to, among other things, the signing of a definitive purchase agreement, customary closing conditions, such as the receipt of regulatory and  [ Read More ]

There you go folks. If the iPad doesn’t appeal to you as an e-book reader, you might want to pick up the Barnes & Noble Nook instead. And no, you don’t have to go to the nearest B&N brick and mortar store, just check out Best Buy online and can score one Nook for yourself.  [ Read More ]