It’s common for retailers to cut prices during holidays, but for Barnes & Noble, there’s more to it than holding a simple promotional sale. After reducing Nook tablet prices on Mother’s Day, the bookseller did it again for Father’s Day, slashing prices and offering some steep discounts of $70 to $129. Now B&N is saying that those low, low prices will be sticking around for a...
If you couldn’t tell during our brief hands-on with the Paperwhite back in early September, we think the device is absolutely great. After falling in love with Barnes & Noble’s Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight, Amazon introduced a more refined step up in quality — better, sharper screen, nicer build, cheap price — that will undoubtedly shoot the device straight to the top of holiday...
The price drop for the Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight has officially droppe from $139 to $119. Hints started showing up yesterday that the price of the Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight was about to drop. Both Target and Walmart weekly circulars were showing the e-reader price was being slashed by $20 to bring it into line with the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite. At the...
With Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite looming, Barnes & Noble is reportedly slashing the price of its Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight by up to $20. If so, that brings the device down to $119 (previously priced at $139) and puts it at the same cost of Amazon's offering. Two separate ads from Walmart and Target reflect the price change, though nothing has officially been announced by...
Tablets may be the top device of choice among consumers, but nothing can quite replace the experience of a good eReader. And while Sony offers up a wide range of tablet devices, such as the mysterious Xperia quad-core tab, the company is still putting its resources into its Reader lineup. According to Liliputing, the Japanese company is preparing to launch a new eReader with a...
Microsoft and Barnes & Noble are teaming up for a new company that could have Amazon quacking in its boots today. It was announced this morning that Microsoft has invested $300 million in a new company with Barnes & Noble that will temporarily be called “Newco.” The new company involves Barnes & Noble’s Nook division and the bookseller’s educational college business. The...
A new leaked image suggests Barnes & Noble is preparing a NOOK Simple Touch said to be launching with a front-lit E ink screen called “GlowLight.” The technology will reportedly be embedded over the display and distribute light across the entire screen, making it easier for users to read at night. A Kindle sporting similar technology was spotted earlier this month, so the question...
It can be tough for even the best-intentioned shoppers during the holiday season. Time can elude you (or perhaps you overlooked someone on your list), and before you know it, you're standing there empty-handed and red-faced. Don't let it happen to you. Even if you waited until the last-minute, or simply forgot someone by accident, you can still spread a little joy. Here's how: Gift...
Here's Part Two of a 2-part tour around the new Barnes and Noble Nook Tablet and its custom operating system. To watch Part One, just click right here. Easy, huh? Nook Tablet is essentially the successor to Nook Color, and runs a heavily modified version of Android OS 2.3 "Gingerbread." Nook Tablet steps up its game with a dual-core TI OMAP processor, 1 GB of RAM, and access to more...
Jon unboxed his earlier, and I took mine out for a spin just now: Barnes and Noble’s Nook Tablet is basically a successor to last year’s sleeper hit, Nook Color. Where Nook Color was sort of an e-reader on steroids and sort of a tablet, B&N says the new model is a tablet through and through. Priced at $249, Nook Tablet is ready to take on Amazon’s new $199 Kindle Fire in the battle...