Barnes And Noble Nooks The Competition
In brief:
- Price for the Nook Simple Touch drops to $99. The same as the Kindle Touch – but “no annoying ads”.
- Price for the Nook Color dropped to $199. The same as the Kindle Fire.
- A new Nook Tablet announced – priced at $249.
Both the Nook Simple Touch and the Nook Color are available today. The Nook Tablet will start shipping on November the 17th.
Nook Simple Touch
Released in June, and felt by many to be the better of the two readers between the Nook and the Kindle Touch, Barnes and Noble’s price cut to $99 will really challenge Amazon in the run up to Christmas.
Here are a few of the key points:
- 25% faster page turns than any other reader.
- 2 month battery life (based on an average of 30 minutes reading per day).
- No annoying adverts.
- Expansion slot for SD memory card allows expansion to 32GB.
- Conveniently positioned page turn bars at either side allow you to thumb through pages.
Nook Color
Price dropped to $199
- Advanced 7″ color touch screen.
- TV shows and movies from NetFlix and Hulu coming soon.
- Coming soon – Nook comics, including the largest collection of Marvel graphic novels.
- Plenty of apps, Angry Birds and more.
- Over 2.5 million books and magazines – including interactive books for kids.
- Send and receive e-mail.
- Browse the web and watch video.
- 8GB memory – expandable to 32GB.
- 800 MHz processor with 512MB RAM.
- Approx 8 hours battery life.
Nook Tablet
- $249
- HD movies, TV shows and music from Netflix, Hulu Plus™, Pandora® & more.
- Lightning fast Email, Web & smooth streaming video.
- 16GB of memory – expandable using the SD card slot.
- Read for 11.5 hours or watch 9 hours of video on a single charge.
- Powerful 1.2GHz, dual-core processor.
- Watch HD video and enjoy lightning fast web browsing due to the powerful processor and large memory.
- The world’s most advanced VividView™ touchscreen, with 16 million ultra-bright colors.
- Thousands of must have apps.
New Nooks – First Impressions
It’s certainly a powerful offering from Barnes and Noble. The new Nook Tablet will start shipping on November the 17th, just two days after the Kindle Fire. Consumers will certainly have plenty of gift options for the gadget lovers in their lives this Christmas.
Back to ebook reader home – or have a look at Kindle 4 Kindle Touch Kindle Fire
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Hi Hamish,
There are so many of these portable devices these days it just goes to show popular they have become and with the prices coming down they are becoming more available to people.
As a product creator this is great news to me as it means that the market is growing
I haven’t bought one myself yet and don’t really intend to as the wife would go potty if I came away from the PC and got an eReader out
But like I said they’re really becoming more and more popular which is excellent news for us that create the eBooks
Barry
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Hello Barry,
Thanks for dropping by.
Judging by the rate at which these devices are being adopted, the market for your ebooks and video tutorials must be growing at some speed.
Wow! I am excited about this! =) I’ve been meaning to splurge and buy myself a Kindle or a Nook this Christmas when I’m back in Vancouver, so I can get access to English books here in Peru! One thing I definitely miss is my library of books! =)
And I had no idea that these would potentially have access to email and the like too. Technological wonders! =)
Thanks for sharing this with us, Hamish! =)
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Hello Samantha,
Thanks for the comment. Maybe someone will treat you to a nice reader when you’re home at Christmas. Send them to this blog and they can read your comment – if you haven’t given them the hint yet!
I spent a couple of years in Brazil – and I wish that I’d had my Kindle then. Getting English books was possible, but not easy – or fast.
I now want an e-reader–though print books are my favorite–and just need to decide between the Kindle and the Nook. Great info; glad I saw this post.
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Hey Leslie,
Thanks for stopping by. I wouldn’t sweat it too much. Both the Kindle and the Nook are great devices. To be honest, if you buy a lot of books from Amazon, I would get the Kindle – and if you buy from B&N, then the Nook would be a good choice.
Either way, enjoy.
Very good post. I’m sure lots of people are confused with all these new devices coming on to the market. Nice blog you’ve got here. Do you fancy doing a guest post on my ebooks blog? (Just leave a comment if you do)
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Vlc – thanks for visiting – and the kind words. Nice blog that you have over there at http://ebookstore.co!
Checked out some posts – I’ll be back often I think, and I’ll be in touch about guest posting.
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It certainly seems that the price of a lot of tech is getting cheaper these days and too be honest it’s about time, but the big question is, are we going to lose books altogether, it would be a shame if we do!
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Hi Karen,
Tech is getting cheaper all the time – and you’re right, it is about time. I predict that the entry level Kindle will dip below $ 50 by next summer – maybe even sooner than that. I don’t think that we will be losing books altogether. Not any time soon at least.
Good post. It is good that there is competition to Amazon Kindle Fire. I have also blog about Kindle Fie. You can check it if you like..