At least, as its own brand. Future Barnes and Noble tablets will be co-branded with existing brands.
Whether this is good or bad for paper books, I can’t say. It’s probably good for the Kindle, though, being the most high profile primarily e-reader “tablet” left.
Not quite. They’re still going to make the Nook e-reader. They just won’t be making the color tablets anymore.
Not surprising. People who want a cheap, color, small tablet get either the more popular Kindle Fire, or the more versatile Nexus 7. No room for one that is as restricted as the Kindle, yet not as popular, severely limiting the number of “in house” apps it has.
Don’t scare me like that! I wuv my nook!
You might still need to be scared, if you believe Yahoo Finance.
It’s actually not nearly as restrictive as the Kindle. This comment at ArsTechnica covers it pretty well.
What Lynn said!! I just got a Nook HD+ and still have my Nook Wifi.
My brother just gave me his Nook!
He bought a new iPad and uses that to read his books, so he gave me the Nook he no longer uses (chock full of some good books).
As a newbie:
I really like it though…just thought I would add a few comments from someone who has taken his sweet ever-lovin’ time to jump on the bandwagon.
Yeah, what’s happening is that B&N is quitting making nook tablets. They’ll still make nook e-ink readers; and they’ll allow some other company to make nook-branded tablets if it wants to.
Right now, they’re selling off existing nook tablets cheap ($129 & $149), which may be good news if you’re in the market for a tablet.
Yep. I got a Nook HD last month. WiFi Nooks now have access to GooglePlay, so I downloaded the Android Kindle app, and Amazon recognizes my Nook as a Kindle device. Pretty sweet.
I also downloaded an Adroid e-mail app (Touchdown) that syncs with my work e-mail (Exchange account), contacts, calendar, and reminders.
The Nook doesn’t have a camera (which I don’t particularly need since I have an iPhone), but, otherwise, it’s pretty darned good as a tablet computer.
I bought a Nook HD when they were on sale for $149. I am not pleased with it, or with Barnes and Noble.
The deal was supposed to include a “Nook benefit” (discount) for B&N members, and a paired set of gift cards from a referral program. Neither has come through and Customer Service denies any knowledge of either (I saved all the offers, conditions, etc, so I’m still pushing them on it). As for honoring the additional price cut, rolled out less than thirty days after my purchase … :rolleyes:
The device itself runs a proprietary version of Android that verges on crippleware. I keep running into things that don’t work the way manuals describe, or don’t work at all. This was the first version since B&N opened it up to regular Android apps, and it’s buggy.
The deal they made with Google included Google everything. Out of the box, it had thirty pre-loaded apps, and showed sixty-eight running processes.
It’s a bit frustrating as an e-reader, difficult to control.
Oh, and the case had a few dings on it.
Combine all that with the likelihood that B&N is facing (richly deserved) “no more”-ness, I’d advise going with some other tablet.
I have an early generation nook wifi with a touch screen strip on the bottom. I didn’t love it because I am in Canada and I missed a lot of content. I could side load though and did.
Now I have a nexus 7 and I run the kobo app. Love it, although I really liked the dedicated e reader feel of the nook. (well I could go on line with it but it was clumsy enough that I didn’t)
Anyone want my older nook?