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Google Play comes to Barnes & Noble’s Nook HD and HD+, we go hands-on (video)
Author: Nancy Kennedy
Barnes & Noble’s refusal to open its ecosystem has long been one of our principle complaints about the company’s tablet offerings. The Nook HD and HD+ are extremely nice pieces of hardware that have been held back by their own walled software offerings — having a fast device with a nice screen only gets you so far without the proper apps. The company line up to now has been that walling off content allows for a sort of quality control, assuring that apps are developed specifically for the unique form factor of its devices. And while there’s perhaps something to be said for that sentiment in the sometimes-fragmented world of Android devices, it was hard to ignore the fact that offering up exclusive access to content through your own marketplace assures better cash flow. It also, unfortunately, means that without extensive developer outreach, there are sure to be plenty of popular apps that just never make it over to your side of the fence.
With its announcement tonight, B&N acknowledges that, in this case, open is better. The company has responded directly to user feedback and will be issuing a software update to its Nook HD and Nook HD+ devices (sorry Nook Tablet and Color owners) that brings Google Play directly to the desktop. The software will come pre-loaded on new devices and will be available as an over-the-air update. If you can’t wait that long, you’ll also be able to download it directly from the bookseller’s site. The update also brings a few other tweaks to the system, but this is far and away the biggest news. The first question we asked upon getting a quick demo: will you be able to buy content like books, magazines and movies through Play? Yep, that’s coming too.
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No Comments »Amazon’s bookish domain name hunt irks publishing groups, Barnes & Noble
Author: Stefanie Jenkins
Publishers represented by the Authors Guild and Association of American Publishers have filed objections to Amazon’s pursuit of new common top-level domains “. book,” “. author” and “. read. While a few of those gTLDs have already come under fire from whole countries, the prominent book groups told gatekeeper ICANN that “placing such common domains in private hands is plainly anticompetitive,” adding that it would allow “currently dominant, well-capitalized business” to abuse their market power. ICANN plans to designate rights to organizations or business to handle domain suffixes like the current “. com” or “. org” and firms like Google, Microsoft and Amazon have actually sought names like “. app” and “flick,” commonly in competition with each various other. Competitor Barnes & Noble filed its own demonstration, saying that Amazon “would utilize control of these TLDs to suppress competition in the bookselling and publishing sectors.” If such objections are persuasive enough, business can lose not just the domain name in concern, but 20 percent of the $ 185,000 application cost– unquestionably wallet modification for attires like Amazon.
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Barnes & Noble To Shutter One-Third Of Retail Stores Over The Next 10 Years
Author: Laura Clark
Barnes & Noble has put up an excellent fight over the past few years against the rising tide of digital competitors like iPad, Kindle Fire, etc.
But it would seem that the bookseller has still come up a bit short, as the Wall Street Journal reports that the company has plans to shut down nearly 20 stores per year over the course of the next decade.
Just last week, we learned that B&N had a rough holiday sales season with a 10.9 percent sales decrease over last year’s holiday season.
Barnes & Noble currently has around 689 retail stores in operation, but the cuts would eliminate around a third of those stores, leaving the total somewhere between 450 to 500 stores.
However, Barnes & Noble’s Mitchell Klipper, who delivered the news to the WSJ, explains that less than 3 percent of B&N stores lose money. Still, shutting down stores is expected to strengthen B&N’s hardware business, including the Nook HD and Nook HD+, which has been a growing focus at the company.
In the face of such a digital shift, it would appear that the bookseller expects its brick-and-mortar business to become more and more of a liability over the coming years.
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Barnes & Noble drops Nook Simple Touch price to $79 for some unilluminated holiday reading
Author: Tech Blogger
Good information for those planning to give the present that continues refreshing every six pages or so: Barnes & Noble’s hitting its vacation stride by shaving a good $ 20 off the existing price of its last-gen e-reader, down to $ 79. A cost, the business helpfully points out, that comes \* ahem \* “without distracting ads.” The rebate goes into impact tomorrow– the advantage of radiant while reviewing, at the same time, will certainly still cost you $ 119.
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PSA: Barnes & Noble’s Nook HD, HD+ tablets are now available in the UK
Author: Mark Jeffries
Following the arrival of Barnes & Noble’s e-reader products in the UK, today’s the day that the company’s tablets follow suit. The Nook HD and HD + are a pair of scrumptious little high-definition tablets, which could be snagged at shops such as Argos, Sainsbury’s and John Lewis. The 7-inch HD can easily be yours for & pound; 159 with 8GB storage or & pound; 189 for 16GB, while the HD + is priced at & pound; 229 for 16GB and & pound; 269 for 32GB.
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Barnes & Noble releases Nook reading app for Windows 8
Author: Janet Odell
Barnes & Nobile has finally made a Nook app available in the Windows Store. The reading app runs on both Windows 8 and Windows RT devices and supports books, newspapers, comics, and magazines. It’s a little later than we’d hoped for — following Microsoft’s $ 300 million investment in Barnes & Noble’s digital reading business early last month, the pair announced a Windows 8 Nook app for “imminent” release, but it wasn’t available upon the operating system’s launch.
Still, if you’re a Windows 8 user with a head unturned by the bookseller’s latest tablets such as the Nook HD, the arrival of a library with over 3 million items to peruse will come as good news. And, given Microsoft’s vested interest in Barnes & Noble’s success, we’d expect…
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Barnes & Noble Nook HD+ tenatively rooted for the paper UI-phobic (video)
Author: Jenny Zhao
There’s no doubt that Barnes & Noble in love with the paper-like interface of the Nook HD +. Not all of its new owners are rather so taken with the retro chic, with the proof being XDA-Developers member verygreen’s early root for the Android tablet (and perhaps its HD relative). The initial code is enough to offer a look of a more digital interface as well as teasers of a CyanogenMod harbor and booting from SD cards. Prior to racing to use the directions at the source, be conscious that the root’s effectiveness might differ wildly in the near future– as of this writing, a familiar defense mechanism dating back to the Nook Color has actually kicked in that declines the root and restores itself to factory stock after eight failed boot attempts. That there’s a root at all will certainly nonetheless be a comfort in the long run to those who such as the concept of a budget tablet without the imposed nostalgia for dead trees.
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Barnes & Noble cut the price of Nook Tablet, Nook Color once more, really wants to be in your Christmas list
Author: Jenny Zhao
Barnes & Noble recently took the wraps of two new tablets, updating its selection (along with everyone else it seems) in preparation for next year. That doesn’t indicate it’s washed its hands with the OG Nook tablet and Nook Color– in fact, both simply got an additional rate cut. Starting tomorrow, you’ll be able to pick up the original 8GB tablet for $ 159, the 16GB version for $ 179 and the Nook Color for $ 139. With 2 rate cuts in 3 months, anyone would think it was trying to get rid of stock. This still places last year’s reduced ability style shoulder to shoulder with Amazon’s 2012 Kindle Fire (with ad subsidies), but with Christmas simply around the corner, we’re not complaining about more option for less dollars.
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Barnes & Noble’s Nook HD gets splayed all over the internet by the FCC
Author: Jamie Colby
Barnes & Noble is eager to ensure its Nook HD tablets are passed safe for consumption by people. That’s why one of the slates has actually just been ushered out of the FCC’s underground bunker after being torn into very small pieces. Of course, our boys in blue amply shared the images for us all to enjoy, and we would certainly be remiss if we didn’t feature them here– after all, it’s exactly what’s inside that counts.
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