The Nook Enters Tablet Territory
May 3, 2011
The Nook Color electronic reader from Barnes & noble may not have set out to be a tablet, but it seems to be turning into one.
Barnes & Noble, the giant that put so many independent booksellers out of business, now finds itself locked in the fight of its life, with Amazon.com lurking in the background.
Media Decoder blog notes Pew Research Center reports share of adults who own tablet computers and e-readers rose from 10 percent to 19 percent from mid-December to early January 2012.
Bits blog notes Reed College report from 2010 that students and faculty unanimously said the Kindle DX e-reader was unable to meet their academic needs, as opposed to textbooks.
Apple introduces free software including iBooks 2, from which students can download textbooks; iBooks Author is a Macintosh program for creating textbooks and other books; iTunes U is an app for instructors to create digital curricula and share course materials with students. Photo
Personal Tech Q&A on Apple's updated IBooks app. (M)r
Bits blog discusses selling back old Kindle e-readers to Amazon.
When the iPad hit the market, some people predicted that it would wipe out e-reader devices. But Barnes & Noble says its Nook is flourishing.
Bits blog notes Melville House introduces new series, HybridBooks, which features stripped-down paperbacks with ancillary electronic material.