Immediately after the iPad Mini was announced, one of my coworkers asked me what I thought. I told her it seemed like a neat device, but the price came in higher than I had expected. She was a bit surprised at the price as well, and she basically said at that level she was more [...]
Tag Archives: Barnes and Noble NOOK
Amazon’s Brilliant Kindle Credit Email
If you purchased any eBooks published by a major publishing house in the last few years, you probably received an email from Amazon, or will receive one from your bookstore of choice shortly. As a result of the Department of Justice ruling on Agency Pricing, the publishers who agreed to the settlement owe us all [...]
Why Did the NOOK HD Get Such a Quiet Announcement?
Barnes and Noble have been busy this week. First they quietly announce NOOK Video, surprising everyone, and then quietly, in the dead of night, they announced the NOOK HD and NOOK HD+, two extremely well specc’d competitors to the Kindle Fire HD and Fire HD 8.9″. In fact, the hands on reports of the [...]
Storybundle Brings Indie eBooks, Readers, and “Pay What You Want” Bundles Together
When I was a kid I was a voracious reader. Obviously I still am, but when I was 11 my parents had a harder time keeping up with my reading habits. I distinctly remember being over the moon with excitement the day my mom signed me up for “The Science Fiction Book Club”, a discount [...]
B&N and Fastpencil Team Up to Change Publishing
In the last few years, there were two big disrupters that have hit the book world; ebooks exploded out of the gate, changing the structure of sales and pricing, and disrupting the traditional hardcover to paperback release schedule, and that on its own was a huge shift. But there was another piece to this, because [...]
NOOK Goes Web Based
Good news, if you care deeply about reading ebooks on every possible device-B&N has released a web version of the NOOK platform. This is one of those features that every ebook store has felt compelled to offer but frankly, it’s a bit of a yawner. It’s helpful if you want to read on a computer [...]
Writing, Self-Publishing, and Self-Editing
Self-publishing has been the great equalizer in writing. Suddenly authors who weren’t getting the time of day from traditional publishing could package their books and other collected works without a middleman, and sell right to the masses. However, as anyone who has shopped around for ebooks has noticed, self published titles are a mixed bag. [...]
Should eBooks and Privacy Be a Concern for Us?
Here’s another reason for eBook haters to complain about the digitization of the written word — your reading habits are no longer secret. While it is not surprising to assume Amazon, B&N and Kobo are watching what you read, the Wall Street Journal has a very detailed account of just how much is being watched. [...]
Will The Nexus 7 Tablet Impact the Kindle Fire and NOOK Tablet?
When Google announced the Nexus tablet, I was surprised to see they didn’t seem to be aiming for the iPad. With a $199 starting price and a 7 inch form factor, Google is clearly taking aim at the devices that have defined the Android tablet market thus far; e-reading based tablets like the Kindle Fire and [...]
Microsoft Surface: The Trojan Tablet For Digital Textbooks?
(image courtesy Wikipedia) Just about two months ago, Barnes and Noble and Microsoft announced that B&N would spin off their NOOK and college bookstore businesses into “Newco”, to be jointly owned by both companies. Obviously this has been good news for B&N’s finances, but aside from the press release both sides have been very quiet. [...]
ReAuthored for New iPad; from Dead Tree Book to iPad Case
We’ve seen a lot of cases for the iPad (and there are many more to come). Some follow a familiar theme, while others are more unique. The case we are looking at in this review is one of those “more unique” ones. It comes from a company called ReAuthored, and it gives new life to [...]
Barnes and Noble Woos Kids with New NOOK Deal
B&N has a new strategy to lure loyal NOOK users…get them when they’re young! They are offering free young adult titles with a NOOKTablet this summer, as a way to encourage kids to read (and of course, buy NOOKs). They’re going to be offering these in three different promotions, each one geared towards different age [...]
Search and Replace Meets the Kindle, the NOOK, and Tolstoy
Public domain titles are a tricky area for ebooks. On the one hand, a bit of digging can get you a free copy of a title easily. But paying a nominal amount sometimes means a better quality copy, with typos and other issues properly corrected. Unless, of course, you bought “War and Peace” for your [...]
Where Is the Future for Bookstores?
I was at a wedding over the weekend, and I tried making small talk with the gentleman seated next to me. As it turned out, he was from Chicago; we started chatting about the last time I was there for a work conference, which was held above a Barnes and Noble. He laughed, and told [...]
Barnes & Noble NOOK with Glowlight Breaks into Television
Now that it is May, and we are in the Mother’s Day/Father’s Day/Graduation season, Barnes and Noble is unleashing a huge ad campaign to promote the NOOK Simple Touch With Glowlight. They’ve put together a cute video that highlights the benefits of being able to read in bed with the lights off, but still have [...]
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