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Thinking About a Nook? The Wait is Getting Longer

Friday, November 13, 2009

[NOTE: As a commenter noted, I mangled this news: The December 18th ship date is just for new orders. Corrected...] Want Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-reader? You’ll need to wait a bit longer than originally expected. B&N had been saying that the gadget would ship in late November, but now is reporting that the new orders [...]

E-Reader vs. E-Reader: Spring Design Sues Barnes & Noble

Monday, November 2, 2009

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Back on October 19th, a company called Spring Design introduced an e-reader called Alex. It had two significant features in common with Barnes & Noble’s Nook, which was introduced a day later: Both sport a large monochrome e-ink screen and a smaller touch-sensitive color display below, and both run Google’s Android OS. Spring Design is now [...]

Plastic Logic E-Reader @ Barnes and Noble

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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Back before Barnes & Noble announced its Nook e-reader, some folks wondered whether the rumored B&N e-book device would simply be the one from Plastic Logic. It wasn’t. But today, Barnes & Noble and Plastic Logic announced that B&N would be selling Plastic Logic’s QUE in stores and online. I was startled by the news at [...]

Barnes & Noble Unveils Digital Lending

Friday, October 23, 2009

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While most folks have fixated on the Nook’s ($259) secondary color screen, compared to the pedestrian and now antiquated Amazon Kindle, the most significant feature of Barnes & Noble’s upcoming Android-based eReader is digital lending. From the Nook FAQ: With our new LendMe technology, you can now share from nook to nook. [...]

Hey, Nook! Barnes & Noble’s E-Book Reader is Official

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

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The salient details had all leaked out already, but now they’re real: Barnes & Noble has unveiled its e-book reader. It’s called the Nook, it packs both a 6″ e-ink screen and a color touch one below, and comes both 3G and WiFi, 2GB of memory, and an SD slot. The Nook will offer both [...]

Barnes & Noble Entering the E-Book Fray?

Thursday, October 8, 2009

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I like these rumors: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that bookstore behemoth Barnes & Noble will soon start selling its own e-reader device, and Gizmodo has a tip that said device will run Google’s Android OS. For all the things that are good about Amazon’s Kindle, it suffers from being a sophisticated electronic device [...]

Barnes & Noble Ramps Up E-books

Monday, July 20, 2009

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At the moment, “e-book” and “Kindle” are darn near synonymous. Barnes & Noble aims to change that with multiple announcements it made today. It’s releasing free e-reader applications for Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone, and BlackBerry; it’s opened an e-bookstore with 700,000 titles, including bestsellers for $9.99 apiece; and it’s announced a deal that will [...]

Another New E-Book Platform? Please, No, Stop It!

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

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TheStreet.com is reporting that book-retailing behemoth Barnes & Noble may be hatching a plan to build an e-book device of its own, possibly partnering with Sprint to deliver books wirelessly. I don’t know if there’s anything to the rumor, but it would be stunning if B&N wasn’t formulating some sort of strategy for dealing with [...]