Nook News

Barnes & Noble plans to launch a new Nook Tablet, featuring 8-gigabytes of memory, for $200 on February 22, as the company attempts to better compete with the Kindle Fire.

Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet was the company's fastest-selling Nook product in the history of the company, highlighting another tablet's rise in the iPad dominated marketplace.

Tablets are on track to outsell dedicated e-readers as consumers move toward multi-purpose devices which cover reading needs in addition to email, web browsing, and game playing.

Somewhat surprising, the Nook Color is fast becoming a female fan favorite, carving out a niche for itself with publishers as they shift from the print medium to the e-reader and tablet markets.

Barnes & Noble today showed off a new Nook e-reader that challenges Amazon's Kindle with a svelte design and new features.

Barnes & Noble plans to unveil a new electronic e-reader later this month, and with few details on the device available, speculation is running rampant.

Barnes & Noble took delivery of three million Nook Color e-readers since its launch, revealing the market for a low-cost tablet.

Barnes & Noble is turning the Nook Color into an almost-fully featured tablet with an Android update in April, pitching the popular e-reader as a low-cost alternative to the iPad.

Sales of e-books continue to soar, registering a 115 percent increase from a year ago, amidst declining sales for print books.

Book retailer Barnes & Noble is planning a version of its Nook for Android app for Android 3.0 tablets, in a move to help its e-reader compete against Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPad devices.

Barnes & Noble is narrowing the gap with the likes of Amazon, Google and Apple, but the gains are coming at the cost of profits and dividends for investors.

Barnes & Noble today announced that it sold "millions" of Nook e-readers, making the Android-based device the bestselling product in the company's history.

The growing popularity of Barnes & Nobles' Nook Color e-reader and Apple's iPad device have opened up the e-book market to illustrated books, with publishers now rushing to convert their libraries of picture titles into digital formats.

Barnes & Noble recently unveiled a new Nook e-reader with a color touch screen, in a move to better compete with rivals Amazon and Apple as the rapidly growing industry ramps up for the holiday season.