Hey look, it’s a new Barnes & Noble Nook in 2018
It’s true! It’s 2018, and Barnes & Noble just announced another Nook! You can preorder it today! All of these things are somehow simultaneously true. The Nook line has basically been a non-starter...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble’s Nook e-reader returns with a larger screen
I’ve always had a soft spot for the Nook. Barnes & Noble’s e-reader was more than just a rare competitor to Amazon’s steamrolling Kindle, it was a nice device with an interesting design — and one...
View ArticleLook, another Nook
Let’s be honest: the e-reader market isn’t what it used to be. Amazon has long dominated the market, and Kobo is still doing its thing — but even then, it always feels like an unexpected surprise when...
View ArticleThe Nook HD and HD+ Get Google Play, Knocking Down The Wall On The Barnes &...
The Nook HD and HD+ got a great update late last night (via Engadget), as Barnes & Noble finally moved away from its closed and system-specific app and media ecosystem. The two Android tablets now...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble Kills Mac And PC Dedicated Nook Apps, Looks Like Part Of...
Barnes & Noble appears to be distancing itself and its products from the e-reader and e-book category, and trying to move into more of a role as a maker of low-cost tablets. The shift is ongoing...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble Reports $118.6M Loss On Revenue Of $1.3B In Q4, Plans To Open...
Barnes & Noble reported its fiscal fourth quarter earnings this morning, and the financials make it clear that the company is still struggling to figure out how it fits into the larger digital...
View ArticleB&N To Keep Selling Nook Tablets This Year While It Transitions To Licensing...
The Nook is on life support. Device sales are down. Digital content sales are down. Revenue is down. Things look bleak, but B&N plans to keep its current crop of tablets around at least through...
View ArticleWith Declining Nook Sales, B&N Says Lynch Out As CEO, Huseby Steps Up, Big...
Looks like things at Barnes & Noble will get a bit worse before they have a chance of getting better. The bookseller has just announced that William Lynch has resigned as CEO, effective...
View ArticleNook Should Start Looking For Buyers
I was speaking with a friend in the CE industry a few months ago about Nook, and he mentioned an interesting bit of apocrypha. Back when the e-reader race was still an actual competition, Wal-Mart was...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble Undercuts Amazon, Kobo By Dropping NOOK Simple Touch GlowLight...
The Nook Simple Touch GlowLight is one of the best ereaders on the market. It has a very nice form and a great screen. And now it’s also the cheapest of its kind. B&N just announced a $20 price...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble Expands Nook Video To iOS, Android & Roku
Barnes & Noble released new Nook Video apps for iOS, Android and Roku today, which brings its TV and movie-watching service to other manufacturers’ devices and tablets. This includes the unnamed...
View ArticleNo End To Nook’s Bad News As Revenues Take A 20% Dive For Q1 2014, But New...
Barnes & Noble can’t stem the losses from its digital books and device division, as the Nook department saw revenues drop 20.2 percent year over year according to the company’s just-released...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble Confirms Staff Losses At Nook, But Hardware Unit Still Exists
A report from Business Insider earlier today claimed that Barnes & Noble had eliminated its Nook hardware engineering staff in its entirety. Barnes & Noble has confirmed to TechCrunch that...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble Taps Samsung As Hardware Partner For New NOOK Tablets
Barnes & Noble’s e-reader and tablet division has been in a bit of a tailspin over the past couple of years, but today it announced that it’ll be taking a different approach through a new...
View ArticleNook And Samsung Announce Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook, An Android Tablet For...
In an effort to bring the Nook platform to a more familiar – and more fully-featured – device, Nook has announced the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook, a 7-inch tablet made primarily by Samsung. It includes...
View ArticleUp Close With The Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook
With the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook, Barnes & Noble has partnered with a major manufacturer to offer their unique – but fading – Nook product. Is it enough? The device itself is a...
View ArticleWith Nook Device Sales Down 60% On The Year, B&N And Microsoft End Partnership
Barnes & Noble today announced the termination of its commercial agreement with Microsoft surrounding the Nook business. This comes alongside word that Nook device sales and segment revenues fell...
View ArticleHere’s How Much Money Microsoft Lost Per Day On The Nook Deal
A deal from nowhere, which went nowhere, Microsoft’s partnership with Barnes & Noble’s Nook came to an ignominious conclusion today with the bookseller kicking the software firm a chunk of cash and...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble Releases A New Nook-Branded Samsung Tablet
Alas, poor Nook! I knew him, Reader: a tablet of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: it hath borne me into the library a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble is back with a $50 NOOK tablet
Barnes & Noble spent a number of years going toe to toe with Amazon in the e-reader market and actually produced some pretty nice devices in the process. The last few years, however, have been...
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