Here’s something that’s a bit odd. Both the Nook Glowlight 3 and Nook Glowlight Plus aren’t available to purchase from Barnes and Noble’s website.
Both are listed as “temporarily out of stock online”, but the larger Nook Glowlight Plus has been unavailable for at least a couple of weeks now.
In fact Barnes and Noble currently doesn’t have any new Nook units available at all. The only thing they are selling is a refurbished Nook tablet and a refurbished Glowlight Plus. Everything else is unavailable.
You can’t even order a new Nook online for in-store pickup anymore. It looks like a few are still available to purchase in stores but a number of stores are sold out in my area.
Another weird thing is they don’t have the Glowlight Plus shown on the main Nook landing page anymore, just the Glowlight 3 and the 10-inch Nook tablet.
Is this an early sign that B&N is planning to stop selling Nook hardware altogether? Or is it possible that they are getting set to release a round of new devices?
Maybe it’s just a temporary stock issue but it’s pretty odd to see Barnes and Noble not having a single Nook model available to purchase new online. What’s going on?
They are available at my local bookstore.
In stock at the Delaware stores – in store purchase only.
I hope they are bringing new devices. Maybe, this is COVID related?
Either a nee device is on its way or they are waiting for device replenishment from their sorces?
Since they went bankrupt, maybe the new owner is not interested in ebooks.
According to The Verge, B&N will announce a Lenovo-made Nook next week.
Are you thinking they might just replace their eink readers with just that tablet?
I would guess there’s still a possible refresh of e-ink devices, but maybe the Lenovo tablet becomes the flagship “reading” device, marketed for comics, pdfs, big stuff.
Nook GL 3 software up date 53.0.100 available. 05-13-2021 New: will learn your reading rate and calculate the time it will take for you to finish the chapter or the book. Display at the page footer. Other updates as well.
09-11-21 My Nook Glowlight Plus updated the firmware this evening – App Version
53.0.58/5.5.0.22 — No info on the changes.
Merkin
Disregard prior message — New firmware number is 53.0,66/5..5.0.30