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Amy Gilroy
January 25, 2011
Barnes & Noble will phase out its black and white 3G Nook, leaving it with only 2 eBook choices: the NOOKcolor and Nook WiFi. If the report in Engadget proves true, the bookseller would
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Amy Gilroy
October 27, 2010
Barnes & Noble revealed yesterday it sold 1 million Nook eReaders to date, as it announced a color eReader—the NOOKcolor. Forrester Research estimates that the bookseller will sell 2 million Nook devices by the
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Amy Gilroy
July 22, 2010
Barnes & Noble extended its eReader software to Android phones with a new app that now goes by the title “Nook for Android” as the booksellers seeks to play up its Nook eReader brand.
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Amy Gilroy
July 12, 2010
Barnes & Noble is expanding the Nook brand beyond eReaders and is aggressively pursuing the eTextbook market. The bookseller Monday announced software for students called NOOKstudy. It permits access to a new eTextbook store
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Amy Gilroy
July 7, 2010
Borders bookstore chain launched an eBookstore Wednesday, aiming to take a 17 percent share of the eBook market. It has a bit of catching up to do, as Barnes & Noble has a year’s
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Amy Gilroy
June 29, 2010
Barnes & Noble is preparing to expand the number of eReaders it carries and set up full eReader boutiques within its stores this fall. On a call with analysts today, the bookseller also said
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Amy Gilroy
June 8, 2010
Barnes & Noble continues to hone on its in-store advantage in selling its Nook eReader by offering a free cup of coffee to anyone reading an eBook on a Nook (or other device running
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Amy Gilroy
June 2, 2010
The news on eReaders and tablet PCs is fast and furious at the moment given the onset of Dads & Grads season, preparations for the holidays and the Computex Technology show in Taiwan this
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Amy Gilroy
May 28, 2010
With Apple selling more than 1.5 million eBooks in the first 28 of the iPad’s launch, it’s no wonder Barnes & Noble has been racing to offer an eBookstore app for the iPad. The
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Amy Gilroy
April 23, 2010
As expected, the Barnes & Noble Nook eReader got a web browser and it became the first eReader to let you browse through eBooks as you would a paper book, when in a physical
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Amy Gilroy
April 19, 2010
Barnes and Noble may be preparing to release new nook eReaders and it told Bloomberg it should offer a fix this week for current nooks that tend to freeze up while in use. Hundreds
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Amy Gilroy
March 18, 2010
The Barnes & Noble nook eReader has become the best-selling product at Barnes & Noble since it launched last November, announced William Lynch, the new CEO of the bookseller. Although specific numbers were not
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Amy Gilroy
March 18, 2010
In a sign of the growing importance of e-commerce, Barnes & Noble rearranged its executives making the head of its e-commerce business, William Lynch, its new CEO. Lynch, president of Barnes & Noble.com for
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Amy Gilroy
March 15, 2010
Plastic Logic delayed the release of its business-aimed eReader, the QUE, which is due to be sold through Barnes & Noble stores as well as online. Plastic Logic informed its customers that the device,
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Amy Gilroy
March 11, 2010
The Apple iPad may have at least two eReader apps close to its April 3 launch as Barnes & Noble said today it will “soon be adding a new B&N eReader for iPad.” The
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