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NOOKcolor Selling On Barnes & Noble’s eBay Store For $199 After Coupon

Rue Liu, Mar 1st 2011 Discuss [0]

The NOOKcolor is already a pretty awesome little e-book reader and not to mention totally hackable--having been successfully rooted with Android 3.0 Honeycomb by some skilled XDA devs. But Barnes & Noble continues to work hard pushing the device, recently hosting in-store demo events offering free Starbucks coffee to test drive the device. And now they've begun selling the NOOKcolor discounted on eBay. Read The Full Story

Barnes & Noble’s First PubIt! In-Store Event, Demo NOOK Color, Get Free Coffee

Rue Liu, Feb 23rd 2011 Discuss [3]

Barnes & Noble, the world's largest bookseller, is launching their first in-store promotion event for their "PubIt!" self-publishing platform tonight in its Santa Monica, CA store. For those not lucky enough to be in Santa Monica, you can head to your local Barnes & Noble this Saturday, February 26, to take a guided tour of the NOOK Color and get a free tall cup of Starbucks coffee. Read The Full Story

Android 3.0 Honeycomb ROM for NOOKcolor released [Update: Video]

Chris Davies, Feb 1st 2011 Discuss [0]

Having seen Barnes & Noble's NOOKcolor gifted with Android 3.0 Honeycomb, it's now your turn to catch a jump on Google's official reveal of the tablet-centric OS. The talented guys over at xda-developers have released a NOOKcolor Honeycomb ROM and it's surprisingly functional: the touchscreen, wireless and graphics acceleration all work. Read The Full Story

Barnes & Noble NOOK 3G reportedly discontinued

Chris Davies, Jan 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

Barnes & Noble is reportedly planning to discontinue the NOOK 3G, the original version of its dual-display ereader. According to Engadget's source, the retailer has warned stores not to place large orders of NOOK 3G units, since there won't be stock sufficient to fulfil them. Read The Full Story

650,000 NOOKcolor e-magazine purchases in two months crows B&N

Chris Davies, Jan 24th 2011 Discuss [0]

Barnes & Noble has announced over 650,000 sales of digital periodical subscriptions and single-issue e-magazines and e-newspapers from the NOOKnewsstand to NOOKcolor owners, in the first two months that the ereader tablet has been available. According to the retailer, since December 25 2010, NOOKcolor users have already bought 150-percent more subscriptions than in the entire twelve months preceding. Read The Full Story

Barnes & Noble NOOK kids for iPad released

Chris Davies, Jan 5th 2011 Discuss [0]

Barnes & Noble has released its NOOK kids for iPad app, offering over 100 interactive children's books and a child-friendly UI. The free app comes with Richard Scarry’s Colors and Elephant’s Child, and there are 230 interactive picture books to choose from as well. Read The Full Story

NOOKcolor gets Bluetooth hack

Chris Davies, Jan 3rd 2011 Discuss [0]

Another day, another NOOKcolor hack, and now it's the ereading tablet's Bluetooth capabilities that are getting unlocked. Out of the box, B&N leave the embedded Bluetooth chip deactivated, but occip of xda-developers has managed to turn it on and get it to scan and connect to other devices. Read The Full Story

B&N NOOKcolor took retailer’s top spot; almost 1m ebooks sold on Dec 25 [Updated]

Chris Davies, Dec 30th 2010 Discuss [2]

Barnes & Noble has announced that its NOOK range has become the retailer's biggest selling line in the company's history, with the NOOKcolor taking the number one spot as the best-selling gift of the holidays. Meanwhile, almost one million B&N ebooks were purchased on Christmas Day, despite widespread reports of server issues plaguing the service for the holiday weekend. Updated with B&N statement on the server outages after the cut Read The Full Story

B&N NOOK2 trademark application tips next ereader?

Chris Davies, Dec 30th 2010 Discuss [0]

Barnes & Noble has been on a trademarking spree, applying for names including NOOK2 - suggesting a second-gen ereader - along with Nook Smart, Nook Cook and even Nook Kids. Pocketnow have dug through the USPTO applications, and reckon that while the Nook Kids description matches that of the presumably hardware NOOK2, it may well be a content-only platform and companion iPad app. Read The Full Story

NOOK design theft suit with Spring Design to continue

Chris Davies, Dec 29th 2010 Discuss [2]

Barnes & Noble's calls for the Spring Design lawsuit that claims the retailer stole design ideas to use in its original NOOK ereader have been denied, leaving the case - in which Spring Design claim misappropriated trade secrets, breach of contract and unfair competition - to continue. Spring Design allege that B&N stole ideas from their Alex ereader during a period of co-development in 2009, with a judge deciding there was "significant factual dispute" over whether the NOOK's design was influenced by ideas shared under NDA. Read The Full Story

B&N NOOK server failures prompt holiday headaches (again)

Chris Davies, Dec 27th 2010 Discuss [11]

It seems that while Barnes & Noble's finances have been rescued by the NOOK range, the book retailer's servers haven't been quite so resilient. Multiple reports have been hitting Twitter over the past few days, complaining that the NOOK activation and ebook download systems have been offline or overloaded, presumably with the weight of new users attempting to set up their NOOK and NOOKcolor purchases and buy content. Read The Full Story

Froyo for NOOKcolor gets risky install instructions [Video]

Chris Davies, Dec 6th 2010 Discuss [0]

Barnes & Noble's NOOKcolor has acquired a hacked version of Android 2.2 Froyo, upgrading the touchscreen ereader's software and taking advantage of the recent NOOKcolor root. Jesse Vincent has the instructions, though be warned, they're not as straightforward as most ROM reflashes we've grown used to; so far there isn't a public, distributable Froyo ROM for the NOOKcolor, so you'll have to compile your own with a few potentially dangerous modifications along the way. Read The Full Story