Magazines also saw a tremendous roll-out and were one of the main allures. In June the company decided to continue to support the e-ink line of devices, which were significantly more affordable than their tablets and still were hailed as a great follow-up by the true e-reader loyalists. It was one of the first e-readers to adopt a full touchscreen, which made it smaller and more portable. This went on to also sell millions of units and introduced customers to the LendME feature. This allowed users to share books with each other with a limit of one lend per book.
Towards the end of , the company introduced the Nook Tablet , which was a transcending experience for Barnes and Noble. It increased the memory, resolution, CPU, and all other elements of the new device. It provided two different models in terms of on-board memory to appeal to people who were more media centric. It did not see the crazy amount of sales initially that the Nook Color experienced, but did go on to sell over 3 million units in Q3 and Q4 of The Nook Tablet introduced a number of new features that expanded on the kids books.
One grandparent wrote us a few months ago saying they recorded themselves reading bedtime stories, which was a lovely surprise for the grandchild.
In late , Barnes and Noble was quite pleased on the success of the Nook line of devices and ebook sales. When looking at shareholder reports at the time, many people were in agreement that the influx of sales was saving the company from meeting the same fate as Borders. In most locations there were 1, square feet of space allocated for the Nook area, where demo units, cases, and accessories were located.
The average size of the complete store is roughly 26, square feet. The increased size of the Nook display stand was upgraded to 2, square feet in hundreds of locations by In early , Barnes and Noble debuted the Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight , which shook the e-reader industry to its core.
It had the same hardware and internals of the original Nook Simple Touch, but carried one critical new feature. It had an adjustable light built into the top of the bezel that illuminated the entire screen. The was finally a true e-ink based reader released to the mainstream market that allowed you to read in any lighting circumstance and shed the dependency on ambient light sources.
The company had licensed this technology from e-Ink Holdings in an exclusive licensing agreement that prevented the competition from adopting it for an unknown duration of time. The exclusivity of the Nook Glow arrangement gave the company the competitive advantage they needed to have a eight month jump on everyone else.
The Nook Tablet HD is a seven inch high-resolution display and will have a mighty resolution of x pixels and pixels per inch. Video playback will allow you to watch videos in p. The pixels are really punched into this model, 25 percent more per square inch than the Kindle Fire HD. Underneath the hood will be a 1. It had no less than four press releases dedicated to it in But neither announcement mentioned any deals for ebooks, e-readers, or audiobooks.
When the dust settled, Amazon announced on July 17 that Prime members from around the world had bought more than million items. It shared the following summary relating to ebooks:.
Go figure. The company selects a new title each month for a book discussion designed to bring readers into stores across the U. Exclusive Book Club Editions of each title are for sale.
Six finalists were announced on Jan. For example, the second national bookhaul Blowout from Feb. No discounts for ebooks in sight. Its press releases revolved around three topics: the Emerging Writer Prize, personnel matters, and new initiatives.
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