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I’ve been waiting for the official announcment to come out about this. For weeks there’s been specuation about what B&N had in store for the nook. I can’t believe the new NOOKcolor is debuting at the same price as the regular nooks that came out a year ago. Crazy what can happen in a year, eh?
Some of the highlights of the new color tablet.
Barnes & Noble today unveiled NOOKcolor, the first full-color touch Reader’s Tablet. Designed for people who love to read every kind of content imaginable, NOOKcolor delivers the ultimate reading experience and features:
- A stunning 7-inch VividView Color Touchscreen and a thin, beautiful and highly portable design
- The first full-color touch device dedicated to reading everything and built on Android
- Access to the largest bookstore with an unprecedented selection of over two million digital titles a single search away
- Read bestsellers to favorite magazines in full color, and interactive children’s picture books and enhanced cookbooks
- Easy and fast book downloads in seconds over Wi-Fi
- The most social reading device ever built; you’re only touches away from sharing with friends via Facebook, Twitter and email.
- The new LendMe App, which enables NOOKcolor users to view LendMe books in their friends’ Barnes & Noble digital libraries and request to borrow a title they’ve been meaning to read
- 8GB of space plus expandable memory to store it all your digital books, magazines, newspapers and children’s books
NOOKcolor is now available for pre-order at www.NOOKcolor.com and at Barnes & Noble stores tomorrow for $249, and will begin shipping on or around November 19.Debuting on NOOKcolor is NOOK kids, a state-of-the-art digital reading experience for children which brings storytime to life with nearly 12,000 interactive kids’ picture books and children’s chapter books.The company also announced a partnership with the third largest US bookseller, Books-A-Million, in which NOOK products will be sold as the exclusive eReading devices at Books-A-Million’s 229 stores. With this announcement, NOOK products will be available in all Barnes & Noble , Best Buy and Books-A-Million stores and 2,500 Walmart stores, as well as online.
B&N also released exciting news for existing NOOK owners. In the next few weeks they’ll be releasing another update that includes many of the features we’ve been asking for from the beginning, including an organizable library. From the way the press release reads, I think it might only be the B&N library, but it’s a step in the right direction. Also in the works: Faster page turn time, Improved search, Password protection and the big one, Sync.
So….I’d finally come to the conclusion that I was going to buy a Kindle in the next few weeks (maybe on Boxing Day) and I find this post…..so many choices!! I’m really attracted by the color options. Back to the drawing board!
I’m getting a nook for Christmas. Now I have to decide whether I want the e-ink or this new color. I don’t know how to decide! I like the e-ink b/c it looks much easier to read. I read some on my ipod touch and I don’t care for the color screen too much….but it’s also way smaller….
Decision, decisions!