The eBook Reader Blog

The Nook Glowlight Plus was released in October 2015, but it turns out the folks at Barnes and Noble forgot to add Adobe DRM support to this model when it was first launched. It’s taken a couple of months and now the Nook Glowlight Plus finally has Adobe DRM support. Or at least that’s the […]

Barnes and Noble announced their Black Friday deals today. The new Nook Glowlight Plus is included in the offerings. It will be marked down to $99 from $129. The 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook will also be on sale for $99, which is $20 off what it’s currently going for online. The sale prices […]

Review Date: November 2015 – Review unit purchased from B&N Overview The Nook Glowlight Plus is Barnes and Noble’s 5th generation Nook ebook reader. Its release comes 2 years after the last Nook Glowlight. The new Plus model adds the latest 300 ppi E Ink screen as well as a water-tight design and a more […]

Now that there’s a new Nook on the market people are going to want to know how it compares to Kindles. So for this review I’m going to outline how the Nook Glowlight Plus compares to the Kindle Paperwhite 3. I’ll briefly discuss how the Nook compares to the Kindle Voyage as well. First off, […]

Now that Barnes and Noble has released the new updated Nook Glowlight Plus, I wanted to put together a quick comparison between it and the Kobo Glo HD. Both are very similar ebook readers. They share most of the same hardware components and have a number of overlapping features; the design and software is what […]

There’s an interesting detail buried at the bottom of the fact sheet for the new Nook GlowLight Plus that Barnes and Noble released today. It turns out the new Nook runs Android 4.4 KitKat. It’s locked into B&N’s custom Nook user interface, of course, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be opened up to be […]

Barnes and Noble has released a new dedicated ebook reader called the Nook GlowLight Plus. It’s available now online and from Barnes and Noble retail stores for $129. The Nook GlowLight Plus is a 6-inch ebook reader, like previous Nooks. What separates this model is the fact that it has the latest high resolution 300 […]

Barnes and Noble has been getting a lot of bad press for a long time, especially when it comes to anything related to the Nook portion of their business because it’s always losing them a ton of money with each quarterly report. Most of the problems are of B&N’s own making, like making it so […]