The eBook Reader Blog

Barnes and Noble is launching a new promotion to help reinvigorate the Nook brand by taking a page from Amazon’s book and giving away a paid Nook app for free every Friday. While B&N isn’t giving away a free app every day like Amazon, hopefully the quality of the apps will be better. They are [...]

If you own a Nook Color, a Nook Tablet, or plan on getting one of the new Nook HD tablets, Barnes and Noble recently added the OverDrive Media Console app to the Nook Appstore to make borrowing ebooks and audiobooks from public libraries a lot easier and more convenient. Previously if you wanted to get [...]

Barnes and Noble has been running so many sales on their Nook devices lately that it’s hard to keep up with all the different promotions. This time around it’s more than just a sale, though. In the ever competitive market of Android tablets, the Nook Color and both models of the Nook Tablet have received [...]

Barnes and Noble runs more sales on their tablets and ereaders than anyone, and today it’s looking like things are getting a little desperate. Either that or B&N is starting to clear way for a replacement to the Nook Tablet. Barnes and Noble is currently selling refurbished Nook Tablets for just $140 from their eBay [...]

Barnes and Noble must have a lot of Nook Tablets lying around because every week the Nook Tablet deals just keep getting better and better. This time around they are offering the 8GB Nook Tablet for just $159 through eBay and B&N.com. It’s refurbished, not new, but it’s certified pre-owned and has been tested and [...]

Today Barnes and Noble announced that DC comics and graphic novels are now available in the Nook Comics Store for the Nook Tablet and Nook Color. The 100+ DC Comics are also available on any Android tablet with the Nook for Android app installed. I guess this means the spat between Barnes and Noble and [...]

I was doing some cleaning the other day and came across a skin for the Nook Tablet that I had received from GelaSkins some time ago but never got around to putting it on. So I decided is was a good time to skin my Nook Tablet and put together this review. I also added [...]

N2A Cards for the Nook Tablet are the easiest way to turn the Nook into a full-fledged Android tablet. No hacking, no rooting, no technical work is required—that’s the whole point. All you have to do is power off your Nook Tablet and then insert the N2A card into the memory card slot on the [...]

A little over two months ago, I posted the Nook Tablet Rooting Guide for a complete walkthrough on rooting the 16GB Nook Tablet and setting up drivers on a Windows computer. Since then things have changed. The rooting process is simpler now, thanks to an SD card rooting method. You simply burn an image to [...]

Good news for Nook Tablet owners. You can now run CyanogenMod 7 for a custom, open version of Android 2.3 Gingerbread off a memory card on both an 8GB and 16GB Nook Tablet right out of the box, no rooting or hacking required. CM7 improves the Nook Tablet’s functionality quite a lot. It offers more [...]