B&N slashes NOOK in UK: Promo or firesale?
Barnes & Noble has slashed the prices of its entire NOOK ereader range in the UK, including making its NOOK Simple Touch just £29 ($45), as part of what the company says is a temporary promotion....
View ArticleNOOK HD gains access to Google Play, apps required
Starting this week, Barnes & Noble NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ devices will be receiving access to the official Google Play app and digital content store straight from the source. Where since the birth of...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble slashes Nook HD and HD+ pricing for mom
Barnes & Noble has announced that it is cutting prices and some of its Nook digital readers in the United States just in time for Mother's Day. If your mom likes to read, you can get her a Nook HD...
View ArticleMicrosoft reportedly considering Nook Media purchase
Word has it Microsoft is considering a $1 billion purchase of Nook Media LLC's digital assets, which encompass its preferred units and leaves the rest - ebook and ereaders and such, that is. The...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble NOOK app for PC and Mac discontinued
Barnes & Noble's NOOK business has been mediocre at best, mostly due to stiff competition from Amazon and its Kindle business. In what looks to be an effort to put more focus on mobile devices and...
View ArticleNOOK tablets on death row as B&N shifts to third-party brand licensing
Barnes & Noble saw NOOK sales plummet 34-percent in the last quarter, and will turn instead to licensing the NOOK brand to future ereading tablets so as to minimize its losses, the company has...
View ArticleNOOK HD gets another price slash as B&N tries to shed stock
Barnes & Noble has again slashed NOOK prices in the UK, following its admission last month that it is clearing stock of the ereading tablets after deciding to instead license out the brand in...
View ArticleAmazon cuts Kindle Fire HD to ramp B&N NOOK HD pressure
Amazon has apparently dropped the price of its Kindle Fire HD ereader-tablet in what appears to be a response to Barnes & Noble's NOOK HD cuts, dropping the 7-inch Android-based slate by as much as...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble CEO resigns: NOOK lead replaced
Though the notification from the book company itself doesn't aim to be too much more than a "by the books" set of information, as it were, the resignation of Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch...
View ArticleiPad family web traffic dominates while all others dwindle in latest Chitika...
There's really no two ways about it - studies looking at the use of tablets on the market today suggest that the iPad continues its reign of dominance - at least in the web traffic universe. As the...
View ArticleApple must allow Kindle store links DoJ insists over ebook antitrust
Apple must allow Amazon, B&N, and other ebook sellers to link directly to their stores from their ereading apps, a proposed DoJ ebook antitrust settlement has suggested, as well as forcing Apple to...
View ArticleB&N NOOK Simple Touch with Glowlight replacement rumored amid cuts
Barnes & Noble has slashed the price of its NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight ereader, trimming the illuminated e-paper slate to under $100, and prompting speculation that a successor might be close...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble NOOK Video app arrives on iOS, Android, and Roku
Every big internet company has a movie and TV show store it seems, and Barnes & Noble certainly doesn't have a problem joining in on the already-saturated market. The company announced NOOK Video...
View ArticleB&N NOOK hardware U-turn: new CEO teases “at least” one launch in 2013
Barnes & Noble has backtracked on plans to axe internal development of new NOOK tablets, promising continued R&D into both black & white and color models, with at least one new NOOK for the...
View ArticleNook HD and HD+ tablet pricing in the UK slashed
It's only been a couple months since the last time Barnes & Noble cut the price of its Nook HD and HD+ tablets in the UK. Back in early July, prices on the tablets were reduced in an attempt to...
View ArticleUpdated Nook for Windows 8.1 app launches
Yesterday marked the official launch of Windows 8.1 as a downloadable product for users of the Windows operating system. Today the Windows 8.1 operating system will be available on DVD and on new...
View ArticleOLPC XO Tablet now preloaded with Nook App for Kids
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative has been operating for a number of years in an attempt to get every child in a developing nation their own laptop to help their education. Originally, the...
View ArticleNook GlowLight unveiled with design overhaul and improved glow
It was a bit over a year ago that Barnes and Noble introduced its Simple Touch with GlowLight ereader, something that has become old news as of today as the company announced the Nook GlowLight -- no...
View ArticleCalvin and Hobbes ebooks appear: iPad, Kindle, Nook readied
Here near the end of 2013 the comic adventure universe of Calvin & Hobbes has reached the digital realm at last, being presented as a set of ebooks for several platforms. While it's not entirely...
View ArticleNook for Windows 8.1 app available in 32 countries and 21 languages
Barnes & Noble has offered its digital reader called the Nook for a while. The Nook has never had the popularity of the Kindle line of digital readers, but Nook devices have sold well. Barnes &...
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