All the stories tagged with nook
Nook Kids ready to roll out soon
10/25/2010, Barnes & Noble will be venturing towards a new niche market – that is, rolling out Nook Kids, a dedicated collection of e-books which targets young readers by offering more than a dozen thousand titles to begin with. Most of [...]
Color Nook version ready to hit the market?
10/22/2010, The rumored Nook color e-reader from Barnes & Noble has already gotten its domain name covered, and we do know that this will be Android-powered, where it is slated for an October 26th release. With a $249 price point, we [...]
Barnes & Noble To Hold A ‘Very Special Event’ Next Week
10/19/2010, Barnes & Noble has begun to send out invitations to the press, inviting them for a “very special event” that will be held next week. Specific details weren’t mentioned, but it will be taking place at its Union Square bookstore [...]
Updates To Increase Speed Of Barnes & Noble Nook
10/18/2010, Barnes & Noble has promised that a major Nook update is on the way, slated to arrive before the holidays. The 1.5 patch is touted as being able to dramatically increase the page turn speed and other performance aspects of [...]
NOOK For Android Updated To Version 2.2
09/10/2010, Barnes & Noble has issued the third update for its popular Android reader app – NOOK for Android. The update bumps the software version up to 2.2 and is currently available in the Android Market for devices running Android OS [...]
B&N Rebrands Its Nook eReader Software For Various Platforms
08/17/2010, Barnes & Noble’s eBook reader for the iPad, iPhone, and PC, have gotten an overhaul, and is updated with new apps, features, and also sports a new branding. From now on, it’ll be called the Nook for iPad, Nook for [...]
Barnes & Noble Offers Students New, Used, Digital, And Rental Textbooks
08/05/2010, We previously brought your attention to the Barnes & Noble NOOKstudy reading platform, and the service is already live, with B&N trumpeting the fact that they’re the first and only major online retailer to offer college students the option of [...]
NOOK for Android is now available
07/22/2010, Barnes & Noble has just announced the availability of its NOOK for Android software that will obviously run off Android-powered smartphones and devices. This is the latest addition to Barnes & Noble’s slate of free, popular eReader software, and is [...]
Nook 1.4 Firmware Rooted
06/30/2010, Barnes & Noble recently released the 1.4 firmware update for their nook ebook reader, and that proved incentive enough for a group of dedicated developers to work round the clock (or so it seems) to crack it open to the [...]
WiFi-only Nook eBook Reader Visits The FCC?
05/29/2010, Well, what do we have here? In a recent FCC filing, it seems that Barnes & Noble might be considering coming up with a version of its Nook eBook reader without GSM connectivity. While the FCC ID for the original [...]
Barnes & Noble Announces Its PubIt! Digital Publishing Platform
05/19/2010, Self-publishing your material on Amazon has been an option to many folks for some time now, but it looks like Barnes & Noble wants to get in the game too, as it has just announced its intention to open a [...]
Sony Considering The Possibility Of A Tablet Device To Compete With The iPad
05/14/2010, While Sony doesn’t seem to have any concrete plans on releasing a tablet device to rival Apple’s iPad just yet, that doesn’t mean that the company isn’t keeping tabs on the situation. In a recent interview, a senior VP has [...]
Nook outsold Kindle last month?
04/26/2010, It seems that the Barnes & Noble Nook outsold the Amazon Kindle in March, which is a surprise by all accounts with the Nook making up 53% of all ebook readers shipped to US vendors last month. Amazon executives probably [...]
