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Barnes & Noble Releases New iPad Nook App For Kids Read more: Barnes & Noble Releases New iPad Nook App For Kids

by roko on January 26, 2011 in eBooks, news with No comments

Barnes & Noble has released a new app for the iPad entitled Nook Kids. The new app provides thousands of children’s books in digital form on the popular Apple e-reader.

The app opens up Barnes & Noble’s massive catalog of children’s content to iPad users and includes over 100 interactive children’s books as well. As part of the promotion for the new app, customers will find two free children’s books in their digital library after signing up. The chosen books are Richard Scarry’s “Colors” and Rudyard Kipling’s “The Elephant’s Child.”

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Barnes & Noble Nook Color revealed

by roko on October 29, 2010 in eReaders, news with No comments

Barnes & Noble just unveiled its all-new Nook Color, an Android tablet fronted by a 7-inch color touchscreen… so long, e-ink! (Not really, the $149 original Nook is sticking around for now, owns 20 percent of the e-reader market, and is about to get a major software update). B&N is billing it as a hybrid of e-reader and tablet device, and has beefed up its software with a full-on tablet-style UI, along with Facebook and Twitter integration. There’s built-in WiFi (802.11b/g/n) and 8GB of storage, but no 3G at this point. Thankfully, the price stays aggressive as a result: $249. You might think that means the screen is going to be weak, but B&N has managed to put an impressive-sounding “VividView,” 16 million color, 1024 x 600 IPS display in this thing. Interestingly, there’s a “full lamination screen film” on top of the LCD to reduce glare, apparently from the backlight, not just from external light sources.

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B&N Adds Tablet Features to New Nook Color E-reader

by roko on October 27, 2010 in eReaders, news with No comments

By Agam Shah, IDG News Oct 26, 2010 11:40 pm

Barnes & Noble on Tuesday introduced an e-book reader called Nook Color, which will allow users to view color e-books and access social media applications on the Internet.

The device combines the simplicity of a wireless e-reader with tablet functionality, said William Lynch, CEO of Barnes & Noble, during a launch event for the device in New York. The next big step in e-books has been color, and users and publishers have asked for it, he said.

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$99 Color E-Reader and Social Platform to Challenge Amazon, B&N This Fall

by roko on September 23, 2010 in news with No comments

Following recent price cuts on Amazon’s Kindle 2 and Barnes & Noble’s Nook, a new manufacturer is set to stir up even more competition in the e-reader pricing wars with the debut of a $99 color device this fall.

The device, which weighs in at .42 lbs and features a 5-inch, 800×480-pixel, color LCD display, 2GB of storage, 64MB of RAM, 2G of Flash Memory and up to four hours of battery life, is just one in a line of devices Copia, a subsidiary of DMC Worldwide, plans to introduce.

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Best Buy Selling Dual-Display Nook Ereader

by roko on April 15, 2010 in eReaders, news with No comments

Barnes and Noble has announced that the company’s Nook ereader will be available from Best Buy locations from Sunday.

Best Buy will start selling Barnes and Noble’s Nook ereader from April 18. The two companies announced the news yesterday. Best Buy will Sunday start selling the ereader along with associated accessories (covers, screen protectors, cables) and the BN ereader software.

loupe Best Buy Selling Dual Display Nook Ereader Zoom

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Color eReader in 2010 a virtual certainity

by roko on April 11, 2010 in news with No comments

A Color eReader release in the US in 2010 is becoming extremely likely. Color eReader implies

It’s focused on reading.
The screen technology supports color and also has ePaper qualities.

We are excluding the iPhone, the iTablet and other multi-purpose devices, devices with LCD screens, and even ‘Dual mode’ and ‘Dual screen’ eReaders.

Color eReader – 2010 Color ePaper Contenders

PVI’s eInk might arrive in Color

While Amazon claims color eInk is years away, PVI has been predicting that they’ll have flexible, color eInk screens ready for mass production by second half of 2010.

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