Barnes and Noble just did something that could very well resurrect the declining Nook brand. In a surprise move that no one saw coming, Barnes and Noble has decided to make the Nook HD and Nook HD+ more appealing by adding support for Google Play for access to over 700,000 Android apps, including popular Google […]
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Obligatory Nook News Post
Barnes and Noble’s marketing department is trying extra hard to get everyone’s attention this past week. In such cases I usually ignore them because I find it excruciatingly annoying when every tech website keeps posting the exact same stories regurgitating whatever a company’s marketing department tells them to like mindless parrots. But things like this […]
B&N Now Giving Away Paid Nook Apps for Free Every Friday
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 […]
The Nook Isn’t Dead Yet, But It’s Not Selling Well So It’s On Sale Again
Barnes and Noble released their third quarter financial results today and the numbers, as expected, were not good. Overall revenues decreased by 8.8% from last year, and even worse, Nook revenues from both digital content and Nook hardware fell by a gut-numbing 26%. Digital content sales actually rose by 6.8%, so that really shows just […]
N2A Card for 7 Inch Nook HD Review
Review Date: February 2013 – Review unit purchased from N2A Cards. Review written by James Cloud (aka Cloudmann). Overview So, I’m always on this quest for the perfect e-reader. My criteria remain pretty consistent but vary from place to place, depending on what’s available. One thing I won’t compromise on is screen resolution. For reading […]
Is the Barnes and Noble Nook an Endangered Species?
So the big news yesterday is that things are not going well for Barnes and Noble. They reported weak holiday sales and it’s not just hardcovers and paperbacks that aren’t selling well, it’s Nook devices and Nook ebooks. In fact Nook revenues fell 12.6% from last year’s holiday sales period. As if that’s not bad […]
Nook HD+ N2A Card with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Review (Video)
Overview N2A cards have been around since the Nook Color first made locked-down Android tablets popular. I’ve reviewed N2A cards for both the Nook Color and Nook Tablet. When I heard there was an N2A card with CM10 (Android 4.1 Jelly Bean) for the Nook HD+, I was eager to test it out, and the […]
Nook HD+ Gets Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with N2A Cards
The Nook HD+ is one of the best large-screen tablets on the market thanks to its 1920 x 1280 high resolution screen and relatively low price, and it just got a whole lot better with the release of N2A cards to give it Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. I’ve reviewed N2A cards in the past for […]