Interactive childrens' books will let kids play with animation, and a "read to me" button has a professional narrator read the children's story.Ī tense battle: The original Nook launched last November with a black-and-white E-Ink screen for reading text, and a smaller color touchscreen for browsing book titles.
BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK PLUS
The company is particularly targeting parents and young readers with its new gadget: A new catalog of children's books will launch with "hundreds" of picture books, plus 11,000 chapter books.
A new developer platform invites creators to build "reading-centric apps," and readers can recommend books to friends on Twitter and Facebook with the tap of a button. The battery allows up to eight hours of continuous reading, and the gadget's 8 GB of internal memory can hold around 6,000 books.īarnes & Noble played up the NookColor's social features and interactivity. It's a half-inch thick, weighs less than a pound, and has a "laminated" screen that minimizes glare, according to Jamie Iannone, Barnes & Noble's digital product head.
BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK ANDROID
The NookColor is powered by Google's Android operating system. It's more comfortable to read for hours, but it's far less flexible and much slower than a traditional touchscreen display. E-Ink boasts a backlight-free display and reflects light like regular paper does.
The NookColor is latest strike in an ongoing price and hardware battle among e-reader manufacturers - and a bold move away from E-Ink, the technology Amazon and other booksellers insist makes for a better reading experience.
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