It is no secret that Amazon will start shipping Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch orders in early November. We are a couple of weeks from that happening. B&N still has time to get some momentum of its own by introducing a new NOOK Color in the next couple of weeks. According to multiple sources, that [ Read More ]
Walmart plans to discontinue the older models of the Barnes and Noble Nook e-Readers in the near future. The company announced today that they are reducing the price on the Nook WIFI and the Nook 3G. Walmart has been carrying the Barnes and Noble line of e-readers for quite some time in the USA. You [ Read More ]
Apple made a few headlines this year with the anxiety over its app subscription model. Consumers were more than a little displeased to find out that their favorite magazines were costing upwards of 0 a year, the same as the newsstand price, to read them on their iPads. At the same time, big-name retailers had [ Read More ]
The Nook Touch ereader apparently has a bug that occasionally renders the touchscreen unresponsive. I had seen some reports of this on B&N’s Nook forums, but it was not until a couple of nights ago that I got to experience the glitch for myself. It happened while I was reading in bed in the wee [ Read More ]
B&N has managed to keep its momentum in the e-reader business going by bringing the Simple Touch NOOK to the market. But the previous generation NOOKs were pretty decent devices too. In order to encourage people to upgrade their older devices, B&N has decided to give away 30 e-books to NOOK owners who are looking [ 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 ]
Buying an e-book reader is not an easy decision. There are plenty of e-book readers around these days, all with their many advantages and disadvantages. Kindle has been the top e-reader for a while now, but it has major competition from the Simple Touch E-Reader and tablets such as NOOK Color and iPad (both display [ Read More ]
The Simple Touch Reader, NOOK 3 as we call it, is a very nice alternative to Amazon Kindle 3. It is more compact in comparison to Kindle, has long battery life, and comes with a touchscreen display. No matter how great this new NOOK is, you are still going to need a few accessories to [ Read More ]
It has been only one week since the launch of the new Barnes and Noble App store developed for the Nook Color has been implemented via the most recent firmware update. Since the launch of the app store over 1 million apps have already been downloaded. The top five paid NOOK Apps brought to you [ Read More ]
Barnes & Noble has updated the Nook for Android app. The main upgrade is that you can now access magazines and newspapers from B&N on Android tablets. The update also features a new library design that is optimized for tablets as well as various enhancements for the HTC Thunderbolt and Honeycomb tablets. This is [ Read More ]
