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...

For the past few months, Barnes & Noble has been offering deals on their Nooks if you purchased a 1-year digital subscription to the New York Times. I have been a long-time subscriber to the print version of the Times, but have been unhappy at the regular price increases for the print subscription. Alas, as unhappy as I proclaim myself to be over the price increases, my unhappiness was not enough to get me to cancel the subscription. The Nook deal looked good to me. The digital version of the Times costs $20 per month; the regular print subscription was costing...

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). ...

Barnes & Noble is offering an amazing deal via eBay, that I would grab up in a heartbeat if I weren’t $80 overdrawn at the moment: a refurbished Nook Color (the first-generation tablet, not the Nook Tablet) for $129, plus a refurbished Nook Simple Touch for $20 more. It’s not clear how long this deal will last; they’ve already sold 4,000 of them. If you’re interested, you might want to jump in fast. (Found via CNet.)...

Do e-readers get young people reading? Here’s some more anecdotal evidence. “Author in training” K.D. Rush blogs about his eldest daughter receiving a Nook for Christmas and going from someone who just doesn’t care for reading to the sort of person who pulls a paperback version of The Hunger Games out of her purse when she asks her father if he wants to see the movie based on it. Now, that might not seem strange to the average parent, but to me it was mind blowing. Imagine your daughter pulling a snake out of her purse...

Which is the better e-reader, Nook or Kindle? If you listen to Consumer Reports, the answer is the Nook—by a nose. Book eReader reports that CR’s latest review, comparing the Kindle to the Nook Simple Touch, calls the Nook better…by 1 point. The Nook tied the Kindle on most things, such as battery life and wifi access. Where the Nook shone, apparently, was its simplicity—it focuses on “reading with minimal fuss and extra features.” It eschews bells and whistles in favor of offering a simplified reading experience. Of course, a difference of one point is scarcely even a...

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 ...

Digitimes Research reports, that global shipments of ereaders are expected to reach no more than 2 million units in the first quarter of 2012. It’s down from as much as 9 million in Q4 2011. The major reason of such a big decline is the success of Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet. One could say “success of tablets”, but actually this is a new circumstance. Since the introduction of the Nook Color there is no clear distinction any more between an ereader (it used to have an e-ink screen) and a tablet (multi-purpose, color-screen). Nook Color is a single-purpose device with a color screen. What’s...

From the press release: TORONTO, March 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Comic lovers around the world, get ready to turn a new page. Kobo Inc. today announced an exciting new partnership that will see Dark Horse Comics’ best-selling titles immediately available on the Kobo Vox eReader. Dark Horse is one of the world’s leading and most innovative comic companies, bringing readers titles such as Mass Effect, Star Wars, Serenity, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hellboy and Sin City. “All of us at Kobo are thrilled to be adding Dark Horse’s amazing titles to our library,” says Michael Tamblyn, EVP Content, Sales & Merchandising. “Based on...

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...