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Barnes and Noble have a new premium e-reader that has a well-thought-out design. It has a large 7.8-inch e-paper display with a matte screen protector installed at the factory to reduce glare. It is waterproof and has audiobook functionality and page turn buttons to make ebook reading enj...
Barnes & Noble on Thursday released BN eReader for iPad, a free e-book reader that competes with Apple’s iBooks and Amazon’s Kindle apps. Since BN eReader uses the same e-book store that powers the company’s Nook e-reader, the app can access more than one million titles. Like ...
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Barnes & Noble dropped the distinctive design seen on the Nook Tablet and Nook Color and started from scratch for the Nook HD. The result is a lighter, more holdable tablet. The soft-touch back has a grip-friendly contour just like the Nook Simple Touch e-reader, so it’s more comforta...
and my computer. But soon Amazon turned its considerable might, and ability to subsidize its ebook business with all its other more lucrative businesses, against Barnes & Noble, and as it raced Amazon to the cheapest e-reader Barnes & Noble lost whatever identity its e-reader division was ...
vice president of digital products for Barnes & Noble.com. “Standards are good for everyone. They enable more supported eReading devices from which to choose, and these options allow device manufacturers to focus on innovation and differentiation of their products to better serve their customers.”...
For my part, though, I think Apple won't object to the Barnes & Noble reader. It would have been trivially easy for Apple to pre-install its iBook app on the iPad, and yet it chose not to. This probably was done as a signal to would-be developers that Apple doesn't...
People who like reading eBooks will choose the Kindle eReader, for its eye-friendly screen, and the gigantic Amazon eBookStore. As the magnate in eBooks area, Kindle insist his AZW format, ignoring the popular ePub format. Kindle can’t read Barnes Noble directly, even if there is no DRM...
It will be interesting to see what Barnes & Noble come up with. There really isn't a market for an lcd eReader without tablet capabilities unless it is dirt cheap. The smartest thing B&N could do would be to vastly expand the Nook's tablet capabilities (no more rooting ...