Image via CrunchBase Free coffee is Barnes & Noble’s latest means of inducing customers to use its BN e-reader software in various devices, including the retailer’s own Nook, while inside its stores. During the limited promotion period, customers who show a Barnes & Noble cafe server an open e-book on any device running the BN [...]
Hot promotion from B&N: Buy Nook Today and get $50 gift card
If you’ve been waiting to get the Nook experience on your iPad, your wait is over. Barnes&Noble just announced the availability of their Nook app, available free from the App Store. Source: Techcrunch Barnes & Noble Introduces BN eReader for iPad™, The Most Easy-to-Use, Customizable iPad App for Reading and Buying eBooks and Periodicals Free [...]
NEW YORK, May 19, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Barnes & Noble, Inc. (BKS 19.28, +0.70, +3.77%), the world’s largest bookseller, is extending its deep and longstanding tradition of supporting authors and publishers with PubIt! by Barnes & Noble, an easy and lucrative way for independent publishers and self-publishing writers to distribute their works digitally through Barnes & Noble.com [...]
Image via CrunchBase Barnes & Noble announced plans to release and e-reader application for the iPad, which will most likely compete with Apple’s iBookstore app. The bookseller already has an iPhone application, released last July, and now offers more than 1 million books. They are planning to launch an iPad version app when the device [...]
Image via CrunchBase BARNES & NOBLE said the launch of its Nook e-book reader helped boost online sales, but weakness at its bookstores led to a drop in quarterly profits. The bookseller launched an Internet bookstore in June and the Nook in November in a bid to grab a share of the growing e-book market. [...]
The new e-book pricing level of $12.99-$14.99 agreed to by Amazon recently in a major concession to the power of the big publishing houses is under a grass roots attack by the e-reading public, per “E-Book’s Cost Is Going Up” (NYT 11 Feb 2010). Many committed e-book buyers are balking at this raise from the [...]
Boomnews reports that the new Nook firmware 1.2 update should hit later today. Tweaks include: • Enhanced in-store seamless connectivity to enjoy free Wi-Fi, with More In Store content promotions exclusively for Nook owners • Improved opening of eBooks and ePeriodicals • Improved response to Reading Now and Settings buttons • Current reading page and bookmarks on all [...]
If there was ever a more direct attack on a product or a one-sided review, I am not sure I recall seeing it. This is just simply an outright slam of Barnes & Noble’s (BKS) Nook electronic book reader. Pogue clearly prefers Amazon’s (AMZN) Kindle, without question. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and [...]
Barnes & Noble Inc. has informed customers who pre-ordered the Nook that if their electronic book reading devices don’t arrive by Dec. 24, they will be given an online $100 gift certificate. The Nook, which is sold out for the holidays, is a wireless reader that costs $259. As such, the gift certificate represents more [...]
