Tag archive: Barnes & Noble Nook

The Kindle's ebook store has become a new outlet for self-publishing spammers in the past few months, forcing users to wade through a growing number of low-value, subpar content to get to the titles they want. This recent trend may be damaging to Amazon's push into self-publishing and may even dig into the Kindle's reputation, hurting the 10 percent of business Citigroup analysts say the product will account for in 2012.… Read More

Today there is a bit of a stink about the new black and white Nook with its two month battery life. Granted, no matter how you look at it, the battery life of an e-reader is going to be several times that of a tablet but you are giving up a lot to get there. On the other hand Kindle fanatics – and I am one – wouldn’t trade our beloved Kindles for any tablet for what we think are very good reasons. Over the next decade many of these… Read More

It’s that time of year again to grab a suitcase, toss in the sunscreen, and hit the beach, the slopes, or wherever your spring break travels take you. But it wouldn’t be a vacation without tunes, good food, and pictures and video to remember it by. Here are some of our favorite portable gadgets, adventure tech and more that will help you eek out maximum enjoyment from all your jaunts for under $200.

Apple rules over its App Store with an iron fist. It makes its own rules and reserves the right to reject or delay any app for almost any reason. Now, the world's largest app store is telling major application developers like Sony that they are no longer allowed to sell in-app content or even let customers view content they may have purchased outside of Apple's App Store. Confused? The implications may be worse than you realize.

So you think you're ready to take the digital leap and start reading e-books. You're not alone, but you have a lot of choices to sift through. Though e-book readers like the Amazon Kindle have been around for several years, a crop of new tablet devices with e-book functionality, like the iPad, have begun to invade the market. To help make sense of it all, we've compiled a comprehensive list of comparisons between e-readers and… Read More

The days are getting shorter, you just wrapped up your summer job washing cars, and in a week or two, you’re going to show up on campus with a hatchback crammed to the top with cardboard boxes and hangars. Fall semester is beginning, and besides the funds you’ve set aside for food and beer, you’re going to need a nice chunk set aside for the bane of all college students: textbooks. Pounds and pounds of textbooks. More recently, e-readers have… Read More

Hot on the heels of the Nook price drop, Barnes & Noble has also released the Firmware 1.4 update which adds a few new changes to the popular ereader. Overall, the performance across the board should be improved according to Barnes & Noble, but there are a few specific updates that should be pointed out: 1) Better (and free) AT&T WiFi hotspot support which includes restaurants, hotels and locations where you see the AT&T WiFi… Read More

Amazon.com Inc. has again cut the price of its Kindle e-reader, bringing it below $200 after Barnes & Noble dropped the price of its competing Nook device. Amazon said Monday the Kindle now costs $189, down $70 from its previous price of $259. It can wirelessly download books and has a gray-and-black e-ink screen. Amazon has lowered the Kindle's price several times since it debuted in 2007 at $399. Amazon also sells a larger-screen… Read More

Retail bookselling giant Barnes & Noble finally throws it hat in the ring with the Nook eReader, a direct competitor to Amazon’s bestselling Kindle. The Nook will have a hard time besting the Kindle, but it does offer some features that the Kindle lacks such as a color LCD touchscreen and compatibility with the ePub format. For more information, read Digital Trends' Barnes & Noble Nook Review. Buy from Amazon: Barnes and Noble… Read More

It plays music. It plays video. It surfs the Web. And with the iBooks app, backed by five major publishers, you can read books on it, too. Will Apple’s iPad make standalone e-readers like the Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader and Barnes & Noble Nook obsolete? No. But just as do-it-all smartphones that play music have nibbled away at the market for standalone MP3 players, you had better believe the iPad will thin out the e-reader market.