Focusing ebooks and ereaders
Nook Also Available From Amazon, But Not Sold By Amazon
Some people are selling Nook at Amazon.com. Nook is not currently available in B&N online store. If you order it now, you will probably get it after February 12. I found on the amazon store that some people are even selling it as high as $600. However, you can also find some rarely used ones [...]
“I was honestly shocked when we found out that the wholse OS runs on microSD” Says NookDevs Team Leader Robbie
The person behind the NookDevs team rooting and hacking the Nook is Robbie Trencheny. He is an 18-year-old student now leading the team to run applications on Nook. Recently, Robbie gave an interview with Nookaholic. Among the other things, he said:
I was honestly shocked when we found out that the whole OS runs on microSD [...]
Nook Has Been SoftRooted, Nookmail App coming soon
Now you can root your nook without any tear down. But still you need a linux machine to run the command. Here you can find the steps to get your nook softrooted. Follow the instructions carefully.
Be careful, if anything goes wrong you might end up with nook as just a ‘paper weight’. Also, the process [...]
How to Install Applications on Nook
Since the nook has been rooted by NookDevs a lot of people got interested on usability of nook with respect to installing android applications. And it’s now possible if you have enough courage to root your nook.
It’s not an easy job since you have to take apart the nook first, and you must have knowledge [...]
Nook Has Been Hacked and Rooted By Dev Team
Do you know there is a Nook Dev team? Probably not until now. Yes, the team has torn off the nook, took out the micro SD card which contains the whole Android OS. They have used a card reader connected to a Linux computer that has Android Dev Toolkit installed to access the file system [...]
PDFs on Nook
This is from Gizmodo regarding how PDFs shows up on nook. Remember, recently amazon also released a software update for kindle that makes PDFs viewable on kindle but on kindle it doesn’t reflow texts. Nook rather offer text reflow of PDFs. Gizmodo has an update on this feature comparing kindle versus nook:
PDFs are supported natively [...]
Will There Be a Nook 2? And Should You Wait Until then?
There are reports that nook is sluggish, and less responsibe to touch on the LCD screen, even sometimes the swipe gestures do not work on the touch screen. Gizmodo says that that’s their biggest disappointment, but still they find a lot of future possibilities with nook. I found some comments on the blogsphere that people [...]
Hand-on Nook Review by Gizmodo: “Great all-around ebook reader”
nook got the first hand-on review on Gizmodo. The review is fair and balanced, and goes in favor of nook even though some features couldn’t be tested. Here is what Gizmodo says about nook, specially with respect to touch screen which makes nook different from other devices:
nook preserves the same pleasurable reading experience, but tucks [...]
No More Nooks Before Holiday, But You can Receive a Special Certificate If You Order Now
Yes, that’s true. The high demand for nook has caused B&N to fix the shipping dates of the orders based on order dates. If you order now you wouldn’t get it until the first week of the new year. That means you miss the nook if it’s in your holiday season shopping list. The last [...]
Finally, B&N Will Allow Gift Cards For eBook Purchases on Nook and Other Devices From mid-December
Here is the worddss from B&N’s Unbound: eReading Blog:
More good news on the eBook front: We’ll soon accept Barnes & Noble gift cards as payment in our eBook store.
This change — effective in mid-December — will allow customers to use physical gift cards and online gift certificates to purchase eBooks through our site, through nook, [...]
B&N e-books Will be Available in Canada from December 1, But No Nook For Now
This is from B&N’s Unbound: The eReading Blog:
Some good news for readers north of the border: We’ll soon start selling Barnes & Noble eBooks to customers in Canada.
The update, which will take place around Dec. 1, will allow people living in or visiting Canada to shop our eBook store and download eBooks to their B&N [...]
Nook Shipping Info: Early Pre-orders Ship 11/30, Last Week’s 12/7, & New Pre-Order 12/11
UPDATES:
From Kevin, admistrator of B&N’s book forum:
As with all hot consumer products, the sooner you order, the sooner you’ll receive nook. The first nook pre-orders will begin shipping on or about Nov. 30. Orders placed today will ship on or about Dec. 11. Your anticipated ship date can be found [...]
Comparison Between News Covering Nook Launch and Nook Being Sued
As you can see from the two graphs the launch of nook on Oct 20 has created a massive surge of news articles that died out two days later. Some unique features of nook, and the guessing game of competition in e-book market with kindle made the news hot over net. When the news of [...]
Will We Ever Get a Nook? Spring Design Wants Both a Preliminary and Permanent Injunction
Spring Design, the makers of the Alex eReader have sued Barnes & Noble, it’s a trade secret lawsuit against B&N. The allegation is that “the two companies had been in contact with each other over ereader designs since the beginning of the year, with various executives exchanging calls, meetings and product details under NDA” (Engadget) [...]
Where Are One Million Nook e-books? I Kind of Got Them, But………..
As soon as B&N announced nook stating that over one million e-books were available downloadable including Google Books for nook, people got puzzled trying to find out where are those books. I even tried to find the actual number of e-books available on B&N’s e-book site. Unlike amazon, B&N’s cataloging of e-books seems little weird. [...]
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