NOOK 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 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 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 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 ArticleBarnes & Noble Nook business slides significantly during holiday season
Typically, the holiday shopping season is huge for most physical and online retailers. Amazon for instance racked up strong sales for its Kindle digital readers and tablets during the holiday season of...
View ArticleB&N pares back NOOK hardware team as ereader slumps [Update]
Barnes & Noble has made further cuts to its NOOK engineering division, taking a scythe to the hardware team responsible for its ereader in the aftermath of slumping holiday sales. Sales fell more...
View ArticleNOOK tablet refresh this year as B&N outsources
Barnes & Noble will launch a new NOOK color tablet later in 2014, the company has confirmed, after losses from the division “narrowed significantly” in the last financial quarter thanks to ceasing...
View ArticleNOOK Windows app axed as Microsoft devs own eReader
Barnes & Noble has ceased development on its NOOK app for Windows 8 and Windows Phone, and will instead simply provide content for Microsoft’s own “consumer reader” platform, a regulatory filing...
View ArticleGalaxy Tab 4 Nook ties Samsung to Barnes & Noble
In an unprecedented move by both parties, Samsung and Barnes & Noble have collaborated to create a tablet made for reading. While the tablet itself has not changed significantly from the rest of...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble spins off Nook division
After sourcing outside entities to make their hardware, Barnes & Noble is now spinning of the Nook division from the company proper. They’re going to pursue having the Nook division spinoff into a...
View ArticleNOOK GlowLight enters UK to challenge Kindle Paperwhite
Taking on once more that ereader market that is virtually dominated by Amazon’s Kindle brand, Barnes & Noble is expanding the reach of its NOOK GlowLight device across the pond. Now digital book...
View ArticleB&N borrows Amazon’s playbook for Galaxy Tab 4 Nook teaser
Barnes & Noble wants you to know that the new Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook tablet is enough to get existing Nook owners excited; whether that’s enough to turn the company’s struggling ebook fortunes...
View ArticleOverDrive to offer magazines, newspapers via Nook partnership
Nook and OverDrive have partnered up to bring newspapers and magazines in digital form to public libraries utilizing the latter company’s platform. The expansion in content will be available to...
View ArticleNow Barnes & Noble has a 10.1-inch Samsung Nook tablet
Samsung’s latest Nook-branded iteration on its Android tablet line-up has been announced, with Barnes & Noble putting the Galaxy Tab 4 Nook 10.1 up for sale in-store. Following the existing 7-inch...
View ArticleNOOK Audiobooks released to make Android speak
This morning Barnes & Noble’s NOOK family expanded with an app that’ll turn the audio on with books. The NOOK Audiobooks App is the first “no-commitment” app from Barnes & Noble to offer...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble ends Nook deal with Microsoft
Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have officially parted ways on the Nook. The digital reader turned tablet saw an investment from Microsoft in 2012 to the tune of $300 million. At the time, the cash...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble buys back the Nook it sold
This week the folks at Barnes & Noble announced that they’d be buying back the shares of Nook they’d sold over the past several years. This began with an October 2012 investment by Microsoft of...
View ArticleNook sales down 55%, Barnes & Noble feeling the effect
Splitting Nook from Barnes & Noble may not be a good idea for the digital branch after all. In releasing their fourth quarter earnings, Barnes & Noble showed an overall positive holiday...
View ArticleBarnes and Noble nixing Nook store for users outside US and UK
After some troubling signs, Barnes and Noble has made it official: it’s going to be dropping many of its customers, namely those living outside of the United States and the United Kingdom. This...
View ArticleSamsung Galaxy Tab S2 NOOK revealed
This week the folks at Barnes & Noble have revealed their own version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2. This version of the device works with NOOK inside. Barnes & Noble will be delivering the...
View ArticleNook GlowLight Plus is waterproof and has a 300ppi display
Barnes & Noble has just announced a new Nook, that e-reader brand that we sometimes forget still exists. The new model is the Nook GlowLight Plus, a follow-up to the original GlowLight, and while...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble Galaxy Tab A NOOK launched: 7 inches, no S Pen
The venerable Barnes & Noble may have already thrown in the towel as far as its own NOOK-branded e-ink readers are concerned. Instead, it has partnered with Samsung to put out a NOOK by Samsung...
View ArticleNew Nook on the way from Barnes & Noble, possibly with Google Play support
It’s been some time since we’ve heard about a new Nook e-reader device. That’s because book retailer Barnes & Noble stopped making the tablet directly, instead licensing the brand to other...
View ArticleNOOK Tablet 7″ challenges Amazon’s cheapest Kindle
Barnes & Noble has introduced a new NOOK tablet to take on Amazon’s cheapest Kindle offering. The item, much like the most basic Kindle Fire, is priced at $49.99 USD and features a 7-inch display....
View ArticleChristmas gift warning: Barnes & Noble NOOK has malware
Malware by the name of ADUPS has been discovered this week that the most recent version of the Barnes & Noble NOOK tablet. This is a device available for sale from Barnes & Noble currently, and...
View ArticleB&N Nook 7 charger officially recalled: here’s how to get a replacement
Last month, reports surfaced from alleged Barnes & Noble employees who claimed they had been instructed to pull the new 7-inch Nook ereader off shelves. The issue was said to involve faulty...
View ArticleB&N NOOK GlowLight 3 takes on Kindle with new Night Mode
You may have thought Barnes & Noble’s NOOK range of ereaders was dead, but the bookseller has made a surprise new addition to the range, the NOOK GlowLight 3. Following on from 2015’s NOOK...
View ArticleB&N Nook Tablet 10.1 gets official charging dock, keyboard cover
Just when you thought good ol’ Barnes & Noble has nobly bowed out of the e-book market, it makes a surprise comeback with a tablet of its own. Powered by nothing less than Android the new Nook...
View ArticleNOOK 7-inch appears as strong Amazon Fire tablet alternative
This week the Barnes & Noble NOOK 7-inch tablet was revealed in a new edition for the tail end of 2018. This device is simple – it’s nothing flashy. It has a 7-inch display with 1024 x 600 pixels...
View ArticleB&N NOOK GlowLight Plus makes clever screen tech even bigger
Barnes & Noble has a new ereader for the summer, with the NOOK GlowLight Plus hoping to remind you that Kindle isn’t the only deal in down. The new model has B&N’s largest E Ink screen in the...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble hack exposes customers’ email, purchase history
Although the Nook has pretty much disappeared into the background behind the Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble remains a well-known name with a fair number of loyal customers. Those customers, however,...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble NOOK tablet designed by Lenovo coming next week
There are numerous e-readers around these days, some of them already sporting colored E-Ink displays even, but Amazon’s Kindle still remains the household name in that market. Once upon a time,...
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