The Universe of eReaders and eBooks
Like Kindle, B&N have decided to open up self-publishing for Nook. It’s called PubIt. It will be available from this summer. To publish for Nook you need to open an account with B&N. There are some requirements, and it’s U.S.-only: A BN.com login, which you can create on the spot if you do not already [...]
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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 [...]
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i♥cabbages who happens to crack the kindle DRM with the program litled “unswindle” has also recently been able to circumvent B&N’s EPUB DRM. He writes, on his blog: The basic idea behind the B&N EPUB scheme is the same as that used by the ill-fated eReader format B&N acquired – step 1: generate an encryption [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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