From the press release.  It's $139 and is available for pre-order now.  Ship date is listed as May 1: Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today introduced NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight, the world’s first E Ink device with patent-pending lighting technology that eliminates the number-one problem couples have in bed – having their sleep interrupted, or being prevented from...

Version 3.1.3 has been released in the App Store: What's New in Version 3.1.3 • Updated and enhanced for iPad’s new Retina display – words and images load sharper • Easier-to-use Highlight feature for NOOK Books – highlight all the words you want • On NOOK for iPad only: Now read in 1 or 2 columns when using landscape orientation • Several bug fixes This update requires iOS 4.3+ and works on the new iPad, iPad2, iPad1, iPhone 4S/4/3GS and iPod touch (3rd generation and above). ...

A brief piece on PaidContent by Laura Hazard Owen today covered the Barnes & Noble Nook Development Conference at Mobile Monday London. B&N didn’t really say much about when or if the Nook would be available internationally. The company did say it had no plans to open stores outside the US, and has not confirmed the rumors that it will be partnering with Waterstones to sell the Nook in the UK. This led to some puzzlement about the event in posts on Twitter—why was B&N recruiting developers in the UK if its devices weren’t even available there? Of course,...

Now that I've abandoned Amazon I need to find an alternate ebook retailer. Even though I'm switching platforms I have no desire to buy someone else's dedicated e-reader. My plan is to do more reading on my new Asus Android tablet. B&N was my first choice but my initial results have been very disappointing. The Nook ebook buying experience is similar to Amazon with two exceptions: the number of customer reviews and topic subcategories. Most reports indicate B&N has no more than half the ebook market share that Amazon does. That translates into considerably fewer customer reviews for most titles on...

From the press release: Barnes & Noble has updated its popular, free NOOK for Android app, bringing NOOK Comics to Android tablet customers. With the version 3.1 update, Android tablet users can now access Barnes & Noble’s expansive collection of comics, graphic novels and manga on their 7- to 10-inch devices (Android OS 2.2 and newer). With exciting graphics in stunning color that virtually jump off the page, NOOK Comics enables customers to explore favorite super heroes and characters in landscape and portrait and pinch and zoom to dive into even the tiniest ...

You can find the registration for this free workshop here.  According to the blurb:   A year ago, more or less, our event on tablets looked forward to emerging trends and exciting possibilities. Here we are a year later, and with many thanks to our kind sponsors Barnes and Noble we get the opportunity to look back on what was thought to be coming then and see what's coming next. Not only that, but there will be a NOOK developer workshop in the late afternoon, before the evening event - see below for details. It's a timely moment to look at the market...

From the press release: Just under a year after the launch of Dark Horse’s digital initiative, it is announced today that the company has expanded the number of platforms on which comics fans can access their favorite Dark Horse titles! After an incredibly successful first year of Dark Horse’s proprietary iOS app and digital storefront, Dark Horse is proud to partner with Barnes & Noble, Inc....

From a Google translation of an article on the Dutch site Ereaders: The American bookstore chain Barnes & Noble (B & N) plans to deploy a Dutch ebook store to open and start selling on the Nook-ereader. B & N is in discussion with Central Book House on a link for Dutch digital books to sell. Also state B & N recently registered with the Chamber of Commerce. According to Mathijs Suidman, Manager of Product Management of the Central Book House, B & N as well as other parties such as Apple and Kobo be connected to the Central Book House...

  Many readers of our site already know that Kindle Store can be easily accessed from a phone, but Amazon’s ebookstore is not the only one to bring a better browsing experience for mobile users. Barnes & Noble also have their site in a mobile version – and it’s very well designed. The experience is very comparable to the one when browsing Amazon. How to access the Nook Store 1. All you have to do is to type in your phone browser’s address bar: bn.com. 2. Tap on Shop for NOOK Books (see picture) – and you’re ready to go! A tip for users of Nook...

Remember how the Nook Tablet will only let you use 1 GB of storage out of its 16 GB internal storage for your personal items, reserving the rest for B&N store-bought content? With the early Nook Color, Barnes & Noble found that people were filling up internal space with their own things and not having enough room left over for stuff they purchased from B&N, so they made the change starting with later shipments of the original Nook Color tablet. But that seems to be changing back now. Perhaps B&N has found that the average device doesn’t need that...

  The press release says it all: Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today expanded its portfolio of bestselling NOOK® devices with the introduction of NOOK Tablet – with 8GB of memory,...

The simple list of quick links to most popular sections of Kindle Store is one of the most visited pages on our site. Here is a new directory, intended to make the life of ebook lovers a bit easier. This time it’s for Barnes & Noble’s Nook Store. When it comes to navigation, Nook Store is essentially different from Kindle. In Amazon’s site it’s hard to find content, as it’s overloaded with departments, pages, and special sections. In Nook Store, which isn’t that content-rich, it’s on the other hand, very easy to get lost. The reason is that the left sidebar displays links dynamically....