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.
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Barnes & Noble, Taking On Amazon in the Fight of Its Life
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; Tablet and E-Reader Sales Soar
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; A Plan to Remake The Book, Again
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.
BITS; Apple Introduces Tools to (Someday) Supplant Print 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
GADGETWISE; Q&A: New Look for iBooks
Personal Tech Q&A on Apple's updated IBooks app. (M)r
BITS; Selling Kindles Back to Amazon
Bits blog discusses selling back old Kindle e-readers to Amazon.
Nook From Barnes & Noble Gains More E-Book Readers
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; The New Book Beyond the Book
Bits blog notes Melville House introduces new series, HybridBooks, which features stripped-down paperbacks with ancillary electronic material.
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