8GB Nook Tablet released for $199: head to head with the Kindle Fire Barnes & Noble released a new version of their NOOK tablet today, with 8GB of memory rather than 16GB…and at the same price as the Kindle Fire at $199: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/nook-tablet-barnes-noble/1104687969 This eliminates the “easy choice argument” for the Fire over the 16GB NOOK [...]
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Earlier this month the Kindle for Android app got a bit of an update. While nothing huge, it did finally bring the Real Page Numbers to Android users. In addition to this, they managed to pare down the size of the download required to use the Kindle platform from 10+mb to a more manageable 8mb. [...]
I recorded this episode during our last two days at Maho Bay Camps on St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands, after 10 days off the Internet. I’m back in Denver now, catching up with the news, and will resume regular episodes next week from Cambridge, Mass., for TKC 185. Kindles were much in evidence in [...]
The Kindle Library Lending service launched in the fall of 2011 started with 11.000 libraries. The number has grown to about 15,000 libraries and counting in the US, and 18,000 worldwide. This new service offered via a partnership between Amazon and OverDrive has been very instrumental in facilitating this big jump in membership. more Kindle [...]
“Maybe we’ll just go with ‘Barnes’”…B&N considers spinning off the NOOK business Back in June, I said this about Barnes & Noble: “They are doing some smart things, and I think there is a good chance they’ll survive…even if that doesn’t mean having anywhere near the brick-and-mortar presence they did before (at least for books).” [...]
Want more storage for your stuff? The Fire crushes B&N’s tablet Read that headline again, because it’s the opposite of what you’ll hear over the next few days in coverage of the Kindle Fire versus the new NOOK Tablet. I need to explain this one. First, the NOOK Tablet has twice the onboard memory as the Fire (16GB [...]
B&N announces the NOOK Tablet I’m watching The Verge’s live blog of Barnes & Noble’s announcement this morning. I often watch Gizmodo…but interestingly, I don’t think a ton of people are liveblogging this. Says something about the cultural prominence of B&N right now, perhaps. I’m bouncing between Verge, the B&N site for the NOOK, and [...]
androidcentral: “Leaked: Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet release date, pricing and full specs!” Thanks to M. Francis in the Amazon Kindle community for the heads-up on this androidcentral article They claim to have seen a presentation for Monday’s Barnes & Noble presser (press event). They say it will be a $249 tablet (fifty dollars more [...]
