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Barnes & Noble insists the latest Nook Color firmware upgrade (version 1.1.0) is a minor update, but collectively it improves the eReader on multiple fronts. Here’s what’s included:
Improvements to Wi-Fi connectivity
Improvements to Home and Shop …
Amazon’s “Kindle Singles” sounds like an online meeting place for like-minded romantics to hook up and talk about their favorite books, but it’s not a Match.com clone. So what is it? Amazon describes it as a new kind of “well researched, well argued, a…
Barnes & Noble on Monday credited its recently launched Nook Color for driving “robust Nook Newstand sales” to the tune of more than 650,000 digital periodical subscriptions and single copy sales in just two months.
“We are excited to offer a wide …
It’s a game of one-upmanship between Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Earlier this week, Amazon announced its third-generation Kindle is now the best selling product in the company’s history, and not to be outdone, Barnes & Noble is saying the same t…
Amazon hates to get into specific numbers for Kindle sales, but isn’t shy of getting all braggadocios when new records are reached. And according to Amazon, the third-generation Kindle is now the best selling product in the company’s history, a distinc…
Amazon doesn’t usually like to reveal sales figures on its Kindle platforms, but that didn’t stop the e-tailer from sending out a ‘Thank You’ letter to customers for the success of its third-generation eBook reader.
“Thanks to you, in just the first 73…
It looks as though the recent price war that erupted in the eBook reader market has been doing the segment a world of good. According to market research firm Gartner, worldwide connected eReader sales will add up to 6.6 million units by the end of t…
There’s a new firmware version available for the Nook, version 1.5, and according to Barnes and Noble this is the largest update ever to the company’s eBook reader platform. New features include:
Sync current reading position across devices
Customizab…