ePublisher Celebrates New Releases With Free Kindle and Giftcards
IsoLibris Publishing, LLC, an independent eBook publisher, is pleased to announce the launch of its two new titles, Time Donors Wanted and Where the Greener Grass Grows. The launch, beginning on September 9, 2011, and running through October 7, 2011, will include giveaways to visitors who sign up to receive company updates. 10 winners will receive Amazon gift cards valued at $25 and one lucky winner will receive a Kindle.
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IsoLibris Publishing, LLC is an independent eBook publisher dedicated to bringing readers the best in written entertainment. IsoLibris is pleased to announce the release of its premiere titles, Time Donors Wanted and Where the Greener Grass Grows. Time Donors Wanted, a fiction novel by Russell Scott is a suspense book about an entrepreneur, Jarvis Sloan, who develops a web site designed to help married men and women find contentment through anonymous affairs. Little does Jarvis know that his invention will make him one of the wealthiest men in the world—and the target of a ruthless killer. Where the Greener Grass Grows, author Lin Brooks' debut work, is a women's fiction story about two forty-something women who send their children off to college. The pair must learn to live with the empty nest left behind without losing their sanity in the process. Where the Greener Grass Grows is about two women learning to laugh, to love and to let go. Both books are currently available in many popular eBook formats, including the Amazon Kindle, the Sony eReader, the Nook and at the Apple iBookstore.
To celebrate these releases, IsoLibris is giving away Amazon gift cards worth $25 each to ten separate visitors to their site. One visitor will receive a Kindle. Visitors will also be able to access portions of the new releases for free, as well as viewing other releases, such as If By Whiskey, by Quentin Whitwell, a lighthearted, irreverent look at the life of an aspiring Maryland journalist living in Mississippi. Previously only available as a hard cover, IsoLibris is proud to offer If By Whiskey for the first time in eBook form. Visitors may also get more information on the short entitled Revenge of the High Priestess, also by Lin Brooks and Uncommon Thread by Scott Anderson, M.D. For more information about any of these releases and for the terms of the giveaways, visit http://www.isolibris.com.
- Be of Good Cheer!
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Introducing Kindle Cloud Reader
Read over 950,000 Kindle books in your web browser - no download or installation required
Based on HTML5, Kindle Cloud Reader optimizes for the platform you're using and automatically stores your latest book locally for offline reading
Instant Books - no waiting for a download, start reading the book immediately, offline or online
SEATTLE, Aug 10, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- (NASDAQ: AMZN) - For over two years, Amazon has been offering a wide selection of free Kindle reading apps that enable customers to "Buy Once, Read Everywhere." Customers can already read Kindle books on the largest number of the most popular devices and platforms, including Kindles, iPads, iPhones, iPod touches, PCs, Macs, Android phones and tablets, and BlackBerrys. Today, Amazon.com announced Kindle Cloud Reader, its latest Kindle reading application that leverages HTML5 and enables customers to read Kindle books instantly using only their web browser - online or offline - with no downloading or installation required. As with all Kindle apps, Kindle Cloud Reader automatically synchronizes your Kindle library, as well as your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights for all of your Kindle books, no matter how you choose to read them. Kindle Cloud Reader with its integrated touch optimized Kindle Store is available starting today for Safari on iPad, Safari on desktop and Chrome at http://www.amazon.com/cloudreader.
"We are excited to take this leap forward in our 'Buy Once, Read Everywhere' mission and help customers access their library instantly from anywhere," said Dorothy Nicholls, Director, Amazon Kindle. "We have written the application from the ground up in HTML5, so that customers can also access their content offline directly from their browser. The flexibility of HTML5 allows us to build one application that automatically adapts to the platform you're using - from Chrome to iOS. To make it easy and seamless to discover new books, we've added an integrated, touch optimized store directly into Cloud Reader, allowing customers one click access to a vast selection of books."
Features of Kindle Cloud Reader include:
An immersive view of your entire Kindle library, with instant access to all of your books
Start reading over 950,000 Kindle books instantly within your browser
An embedded Kindle Store optimized for your web browser makes it seamless to discover new books and start reading them instantly
New Kindle Store for iPad is built from the ground up for iPad's touch interface
Your current book is automatically made available for offline use, and you can choose to save a book for reading offline at any time
Receive automatic software updates without the need to download new software
Select any book to start reading, customize the page layout to your desired font size, text color, background color, and more
View all of the notes, highlights, and bookmarks that you've made on other Kindle apps or on Kindle
Sync your last page read across your Kindle and free Kindle apps so you can always pick up where you left off
Kindle Cloud Reader is available for Safari on iPad, Safari on desktop and Chrome starting today. Kindle Cloud Reader on the iPad is optimized for the size and unique touch interface of iPad. Without even leaving the app, customers can start shopping in the Kindle Store and will find a unique and immersive shopping experience built specifically for iPad's Safari browser.
Kindle Cloud Reader will be available on additional web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, the BlackBerry PlayBook browser, and other mobile browsers, in the coming months.
- Be of Good Cheer!
Friday, August 5, 2011
Barnes and Noble Free Friday
Footsteps in the Dark
by Georgette Heyer
NOOK Book (eBook)
Available for Download.
ISBN-13: 9781402254659
Price: $0.00
August 5, 2011
by Georgette Heyer
NOOK Book (eBook)
Available for Download.
ISBN-13: 9781402254659
Price: $0.00
August 5, 2011
Gmail - Summer Blockbusters Come to NOOK Color(TM) Including Cowboys & Aliens Graphic Novel App with In-Store Exclusives, Winnie the Pooh, Captain America and Other Interactive Kids Books - lxwrites@gmail.com
Summer Blockbusters Come to NOOK Color(TM) Including Cowboys & Aliens Graphic Novel App with In-Store Exclusives, Winnie the Pooh, Captain America and Other Interactive Kids Books
New York, New York - August 5, 2011 - Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, announced today a myriad of great new summer movie blockbusters and other content for its critically acclaimed NOOK Color Reader's Tablet(TM), making the best value tablet on the market at $249 even better. NOOK Color customers can now read, explore and do even more, with an expanding array of popular high quality NOOK Apps(TM), more than 600 interactive children's picture books, a selection of more than 180 digital newspapers and full-color magazines, along with special content made available exclusively for NOOK(TM) device customers. Among these extras, customers who download the new Cowboys & Aliens graphic novel NOOK App can unlock free exclusives, including a prologue video, sketchbook, character bios and a secret Alien Language Translator while connected to free Wi-Fi® in any Barnes & Noble store.
"NOOK Color is perfect for people who enjoy reading a range of content in rich color, staying connected, and utilizing the latest popular apps," said Jamie Iannone, President of Digital Products, Barnes & Noble.com. "We've added even more ways for adults and children to enjoy content based on some of the biggest summer movies, plus even more high-quality apps and books. NOOK Color is always getting better and remains the perfect companion for exploring and discovering almost anything, anywhere, and priced at $249, it's a terrific value."
Through its growing collection, customers can enjoy hundreds of popular, high-quality NOOK Apps offered by third-party developers and content providers for NOOK Color. New selections include the ever-popular Ms. PAC-MAN, Text Twist 2, Let's Golf! 2, Mazes, Doodle Jump Deluxe, and more fun apps made just for kids like Preschool Connect the Dots, Monster Match, Sandra Boynton's Moo Baa La La and more. Among the most recent top paid NOOK Apps are Angry Birds, Angry Birds Rio, Ms. PAC-MAN, Solitaire and Blast Monkeys and top free apps include Float HD, Fliq Calendar, Tikatok StorySpark, Fandango Movies and BibleReader.
Just in time for back to school, Barnes & Noble's youngest customers can choose from the world's largest collection of digital children's content including more than 600 picture books and more than 12,000 kids' chapter books. The company has added numerous options to prepare kids for classroom time, including interactive Read and Play(TM) titles Kindergators by Rosemary Wells and ABC Dinosaurs from the Museum of Natural History. NOOK Kids also offers new books featuring characters from popular summer movies - Disney's Cars 2, Transformers, Winnie the Pooh, Thor, Captain America and more. Current bestsellers include Cars, Puff the Magic Dragon, I Saw an Ant on the Railroad Track, Splat the Cat Sings Flat, Fancy Nancy and the Mean Girl, Frog and Toad Are Friends and The Little Mermaid: A Special Song. In addition to NOOK Color, most picture books are available to be enjoyed by iPad(TM) owners using the free NOOK Kids for iPad application (www.nookkids.com/ipad and www.itunes.com/appstore).
Adding tens of thousands of new NOOK Books(TM) to its expansive offering of more than 2 million titles, Barnes & Noble offers something for everyone to read from bestsellers and new releases to favorites and classics. NOOK Color customers will enjoy even more enhanced titles such as Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life, which includes video footage and an exclusive interview with J.K. Rowling. Barnes & Noble's current bestsellers include Jaycee Dugard's survival story A Stolen Life, George R. R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons and a standout newcomer from Ransom Riggs Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, a thriller mixed with vintage photos appealing to both young adults and adults.
Exclusive More in Store(TM)
Barnes & Noble will offer new More In Store content, exclusively available for NOOK Color and NOOK customers in any of Barnes & Noble's more than 700 stores by connecting to free in-store Wi-Fi service. Readers can enjoy exclusive contributions from bestselling authors Meg Cabot and Janet Evanovich, Tiger's Curse breakout Colleen Houck, grillmaster Andrew Schloss, diamond expert Alicia Oltuski and other notable authors. More In Store content is updated weekly and each new feature is available for four weeks on a rolling basis. NOOK customers can always check the recent content by visiting www.bn.com/moreinstore.
New York, New York - August 5, 2011 - Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, announced today a myriad of great new summer movie blockbusters and other content for its critically acclaimed NOOK Color Reader's Tablet(TM), making the best value tablet on the market at $249 even better. NOOK Color customers can now read, explore and do even more, with an expanding array of popular high quality NOOK Apps(TM), more than 600 interactive children's picture books, a selection of more than 180 digital newspapers and full-color magazines, along with special content made available exclusively for NOOK(TM) device customers. Among these extras, customers who download the new Cowboys & Aliens graphic novel NOOK App can unlock free exclusives, including a prologue video, sketchbook, character bios and a secret Alien Language Translator while connected to free Wi-Fi® in any Barnes & Noble store.
"NOOK Color is perfect for people who enjoy reading a range of content in rich color, staying connected, and utilizing the latest popular apps," said Jamie Iannone, President of Digital Products, Barnes & Noble.com. "We've added even more ways for adults and children to enjoy content based on some of the biggest summer movies, plus even more high-quality apps and books. NOOK Color is always getting better and remains the perfect companion for exploring and discovering almost anything, anywhere, and priced at $249, it's a terrific value."
Through its growing collection, customers can enjoy hundreds of popular, high-quality NOOK Apps offered by third-party developers and content providers for NOOK Color. New selections include the ever-popular Ms. PAC-MAN, Text Twist 2, Let's Golf! 2, Mazes, Doodle Jump Deluxe, and more fun apps made just for kids like Preschool Connect the Dots, Monster Match, Sandra Boynton's Moo Baa La La and more. Among the most recent top paid NOOK Apps are Angry Birds, Angry Birds Rio, Ms. PAC-MAN, Solitaire and Blast Monkeys and top free apps include Float HD, Fliq Calendar, Tikatok StorySpark, Fandango Movies and BibleReader.
Just in time for back to school, Barnes & Noble's youngest customers can choose from the world's largest collection of digital children's content including more than 600 picture books and more than 12,000 kids' chapter books. The company has added numerous options to prepare kids for classroom time, including interactive Read and Play(TM) titles Kindergators by Rosemary Wells and ABC Dinosaurs from the Museum of Natural History. NOOK Kids also offers new books featuring characters from popular summer movies - Disney's Cars 2, Transformers, Winnie the Pooh, Thor, Captain America and more. Current bestsellers include Cars, Puff the Magic Dragon, I Saw an Ant on the Railroad Track, Splat the Cat Sings Flat, Fancy Nancy and the Mean Girl, Frog and Toad Are Friends and The Little Mermaid: A Special Song. In addition to NOOK Color, most picture books are available to be enjoyed by iPad(TM) owners using the free NOOK Kids for iPad application (www.nookkids.com/ipad and www.itunes.com/appstore).
Adding tens of thousands of new NOOK Books(TM) to its expansive offering of more than 2 million titles, Barnes & Noble offers something for everyone to read from bestsellers and new releases to favorites and classics. NOOK Color customers will enjoy even more enhanced titles such as Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life, which includes video footage and an exclusive interview with J.K. Rowling. Barnes & Noble's current bestsellers include Jaycee Dugard's survival story A Stolen Life, George R. R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons and a standout newcomer from Ransom Riggs Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, a thriller mixed with vintage photos appealing to both young adults and adults.
Exclusive More in Store(TM)
Barnes & Noble will offer new More In Store content, exclusively available for NOOK Color and NOOK customers in any of Barnes & Noble's more than 700 stores by connecting to free in-store Wi-Fi service. Readers can enjoy exclusive contributions from bestselling authors Meg Cabot and Janet Evanovich, Tiger's Curse breakout Colleen Houck, grillmaster Andrew Schloss, diamond expert Alicia Oltuski and other notable authors. More In Store content is updated weekly and each new feature is available for four weeks on a rolling basis. NOOK customers can always check the recent content by visiting www.bn.com/moreinstore.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Amazon UK kindle promotion
Kindle Summer Promotion: Save 20% on any Amazon Kindle cover with your Kindle or Kindle 3G purchase
How to redeem the special offer for Kindle:
Add a Kindle (Wi-Fi) or 3G Kindle (free 3G + Wi-Fi) to your Shopping Basket.
Add an Amazon Kindle Leather Cover or Amazon Kindle Lighted Leather Cover to your basket.
When you have finished shopping, click "Proceed to Checkout".
A discount will be applied to the order total at checkout, reducing the Amazon.co.uk selling price of the Kindle cover by 20%.
This promotion is valid through 10pm on 15th August 2011.
- Be of Good Cheer!
Friday, July 8, 2011
Barnes and Noble Free Friday Book for July 8, 2011
The Hunt by author Jan Neuharth - Amazon is probably matching the price. I have not read it; it is about foxhunting.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Kindle Edition of New York Times -- the Facts
On July 7, 2011, Amazon announced that Kindle users with a New York Times subscription can now have access to NYtimes.com. Learn how to link accounts.
Read more at Suite101: How to Link the Amazon Kindle New York Times and Web Editions | Suite101.com http://www.suite101.com/content/how-to-link-the-amazon-kindle-new-york-times-and-web-editions-a378733#ixzz1RTfNm400
Read more at Suite101: How to Link the Amazon Kindle New York Times and Web Editions | Suite101.com http://www.suite101.com/content/how-to-link-the-amazon-kindle-new-york-times-and-web-editions-a378733#ixzz1RTfNm400
Nook Joins Kindle with Access to the New York Times
Barnes & Noble NOOK(TM) Subscribers to The New York Times Enjoy Access to NYTimes.com
New York, New York - July 7, 2011 - Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, today announced that all subscribers to The New York Times through NOOK Newsstand(TM) can also enjoy access to the NYTimes.com website as a benefit of their subscription. Barnes & Noble NOOK customers can now enjoy the daily e-edition of The New York Times on devices including the All-New NOOK and NOOK Color(TM) Reader's Tablet, as well as complete access to The Times' award-winning website, NYTimes.com, including timely news updates, opinion, blogs, video, interactive graphics and more.
"We are pleased to offer our NOOK customers even more access to great content anytime from The New York Times - one of our bestselling NOOK Newspapers(TM)," said Jonathan Shar, Vice President and General Manager of digital newsstand at Barnes & Noble. "We’ve had positive customer response about providing NYTimes.com access to NOOK New York Times subscribers who already enjoy reading their daily digital edition on their award-winning NOOK devices."
"We are pleased to be able to offer online access to NYTimes.com as part of the subscription experience for our loyal readers on NOOK devices, an important audience for us," said Yasmin Namini, senior vice president, marketing and circulation, and general manager, reader applications, The New York Times Media Group. "Now NOOK subscribers can access even more of The Times' high-quality journalism, with breaking news, video, audio, multimedia and blogs on our award-winning site."
Barnes & Noble customers with current subscriptions to The New York Times through NOOK Newsstand(TM) will receive a notification today with additional information to help them begin enjoying access to NYTimes.com immediately.
The New York Times, along with all digital periodicals from Barnes & Noble, is available for a risk-free, 14-day free trial for all customers. For more information and to order The New York Times for NOOK, visit www.bn.com/nytimes or visit any NOOK Boutique or display in one of Barnes & Noble's more than 700 bookstores (http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com) to learn more.
About NOOK(TM) from Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble's NOOK brand of eReading products makes it easy to read what you love, anywhere you like(TM) with a fun, easy-to-use and immersive digital reading experience. With NOOK, customers gain access to Barnes & Noble's expansive NOOK Bookstore(TM) of more than two million digital titles, and the ability to enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices. The award-winning NOOK Color(TM) Reader's Tablet(TM), the best value on the tablet market ($249), features a stunning 7-inch VividView(TM) Color Touchscreen to read all of the content you love, shop popular apps, connect via e-mail, browse the Web and more. The All-New NOOK ($139), the Simple Touch Reader(TM), is the easiest-to-use 6-inch touch reader, with the longest battery life of any eReader. In Barnes & Noble stores, NOOK owners can access free Wi-Fi connectivity, enjoy the Read In Store(TM) feature to read NOOK Books(TM) for free, and the More In Store(TM) program, which offers free, exclusive content and special promotions. Barnes & Noble was the first company to offer digital lending for a wide selection of books through its LendMe® technology, available through NOOK eReading products. Find NOOK devices in Barnes & Noble stores and online at www.BN.com, as well as at Best Buy, Walmart, Staples and Books-A-Million.
In addition to NOOK devices, Barnes & Noble makes it easy for customers to enjoy any book, anytime, anywhere with its free line of NOOK software, available at www.bn.com/freenookapps. Customers can use Barnes & Noble's free eReading software to access and read books from their personal Barnes & Noble digital library on devices including iPad(TM), iPhone®, iPod touch®, Android(TM) smartphones and tablets BlackBerry®, PC and Mac®. Lifetime Library(TM) helps ensure that Barnes & Noble customers will always be able to access their digital libraries on NOOK products and software-enabled devices and BN.com. Barnes & Noble also offers NOOK Study(TM) (www.nookstudy.com), an innovative study platform and software solution for higher education, NOOK Kids(TM) (www.nookkids.com), a collection of digital picture and chapter books for children, and NOOK Books en español(TM) (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ebooksenespanol), the first-ever Spanish language digital bookstore in the United States.
For more information on NOOK devices and eReading software, updates, new NOOK Book releases, Free Friday(TM) NOOK Books and more, follow us on www.twitter.com/ebooksbn and www.facebook.com/nookbn.
New York, New York - July 7, 2011 - Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, today announced that all subscribers to The New York Times through NOOK Newsstand(TM) can also enjoy access to the NYTimes.com website as a benefit of their subscription. Barnes & Noble NOOK customers can now enjoy the daily e-edition of The New York Times on devices including the All-New NOOK and NOOK Color(TM) Reader's Tablet, as well as complete access to The Times' award-winning website, NYTimes.com, including timely news updates, opinion, blogs, video, interactive graphics and more.
"We are pleased to offer our NOOK customers even more access to great content anytime from The New York Times - one of our bestselling NOOK Newspapers(TM)," said Jonathan Shar, Vice President and General Manager of digital newsstand at Barnes & Noble. "We’ve had positive customer response about providing NYTimes.com access to NOOK New York Times subscribers who already enjoy reading their daily digital edition on their award-winning NOOK devices."
"We are pleased to be able to offer online access to NYTimes.com as part of the subscription experience for our loyal readers on NOOK devices, an important audience for us," said Yasmin Namini, senior vice president, marketing and circulation, and general manager, reader applications, The New York Times Media Group. "Now NOOK subscribers can access even more of The Times' high-quality journalism, with breaking news, video, audio, multimedia and blogs on our award-winning site."
Barnes & Noble customers with current subscriptions to The New York Times through NOOK Newsstand(TM) will receive a notification today with additional information to help them begin enjoying access to NYTimes.com immediately.
The New York Times, along with all digital periodicals from Barnes & Noble, is available for a risk-free, 14-day free trial for all customers. For more information and to order The New York Times for NOOK, visit www.bn.com/nytimes or visit any NOOK Boutique or display in one of Barnes & Noble's more than 700 bookstores (http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com) to learn more.
About NOOK(TM) from Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble's NOOK brand of eReading products makes it easy to read what you love, anywhere you like(TM) with a fun, easy-to-use and immersive digital reading experience. With NOOK, customers gain access to Barnes & Noble's expansive NOOK Bookstore(TM) of more than two million digital titles, and the ability to enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices. The award-winning NOOK Color(TM) Reader's Tablet(TM), the best value on the tablet market ($249), features a stunning 7-inch VividView(TM) Color Touchscreen to read all of the content you love, shop popular apps, connect via e-mail, browse the Web and more. The All-New NOOK ($139), the Simple Touch Reader(TM), is the easiest-to-use 6-inch touch reader, with the longest battery life of any eReader. In Barnes & Noble stores, NOOK owners can access free Wi-Fi connectivity, enjoy the Read In Store(TM) feature to read NOOK Books(TM) for free, and the More In Store(TM) program, which offers free, exclusive content and special promotions. Barnes & Noble was the first company to offer digital lending for a wide selection of books through its LendMe® technology, available through NOOK eReading products. Find NOOK devices in Barnes & Noble stores and online at www.BN.com, as well as at Best Buy, Walmart, Staples and Books-A-Million.
In addition to NOOK devices, Barnes & Noble makes it easy for customers to enjoy any book, anytime, anywhere with its free line of NOOK software, available at www.bn.com/freenookapps. Customers can use Barnes & Noble's free eReading software to access and read books from their personal Barnes & Noble digital library on devices including iPad(TM), iPhone®, iPod touch®, Android(TM) smartphones and tablets BlackBerry®, PC and Mac®. Lifetime Library(TM) helps ensure that Barnes & Noble customers will always be able to access their digital libraries on NOOK products and software-enabled devices and BN.com. Barnes & Noble also offers NOOK Study(TM) (www.nookstudy.com), an innovative study platform and software solution for higher education, NOOK Kids(TM) (www.nookkids.com), a collection of digital picture and chapter books for children, and NOOK Books en español(TM) (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ebooksenespanol), the first-ever Spanish language digital bookstore in the United States.
For more information on NOOK devices and eReading software, updates, new NOOK Book releases, Free Friday(TM) NOOK Books and more, follow us on www.twitter.com/ebooksbn and www.facebook.com/nookbn.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Nook trade in program details
Barnes & Noble Invites Customers to See for Themselves Why Critics Call NOOK(TM) Devices the Best Reading Devices on the Market
Customers Who Bring Their Old eReader to a Barnes & Noble Store to
Compare and Upgrade to NOOK Receive 30 Free NOOK Books(TM) Worth $315
New York, New York - June 30, 2011 - Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, is inviting customers to experience what the critics and millions of customers are raving about: the company's award-winning, bestselling line of NOOK reading devices. Beginning July 1, bring any eReader into a Barnes & Noble bookstore to compare and upgrade to a NOOK device and receive an instant NOOK Book collection - 30 free digital titles valued at $315. The limited-time NOOK upgrade program is offered with purchase of any popular NOOK device including The All-New NOOK and NOOK Color Reader's Tablet(TM).
Beginning Friday, while supplies last, customers will receive a free, 2GB microSD card loaded with 30 NOOK Books - from cooking and lifestyle to classics and reference - when they show a bookseller their old device and purchase the NOOK reader that best suits them. Book lovers of all ages will love The All-New NOOK, The Simple Touch Reader(TM), which dozens of leading reviewers have praised as the best dedicated reading device on the market. The easy-to-use, ultra-light, portable 6-inch eReader features a simple, immersive experience with a full-touchscreen and the most-advanced E Ink® Pearl display, the longest battery life in the industry with an incredible two months on a single charge and the most social reading experience ever with NOOK Friends(TM) - all for just $139.
For customers who love to read everything in color with the added convenience of key tablet features, NOOK Color Reader's Tablet offers what critics have proclaimed the best value on the tablet market at just $249. The award-winning device is sleek and portable, and features a stunning 7-inch color touchscreen ideal for reading a wide variety of content including books (some enhanced with in-page video), immersive children's picture books with the exclusive AliveTouch(TM) technology, an expansive collection of full-color, interactive magazines plus newspapers, and more. NOOK Color now delivers customers' most-requested tablet features with a wide selection of high-quality NOOK Apps(TM) to play, learn, organize and explore, built-in e-mail to stay connected, and an enhanced Web experience. Both NOOK devices connect via Wi-Fi® to Barnes & Noble's expansive collection of more than two million digital books, periodicals and more, and offer customers access to even more free and exclusive content while visiting any of Barnes & Noble's more than 700 bookstores.
"Both the All-New NOOK and NOOK Color Reader's Tablet are best-in-class according to the industry's leading reviewers and millions of devoted NOOK customers. We are confident that side-by-side comparisons with other eReaders will show NOOK products to be the superior choice," said Jamie Iannone, President of Digital Products, Barnes & Noble. "We invite reading lovers to visit their neighborhood Barnes & Noble bookstore to see, hold and touch our innovative NOOK products and encourage them to upgrade their reading experience while kicking off their collection with a limited-time bonus of 30 free NOOK Books."
The 30 digital books represent a variety of genres including Cooking, Kids, Classics, Humor, Lifestyle, Fiction, Sports, History, True Crime and Reference. Some of the free titles include: The Good Housekeeping Cookbook, Cristina Ferrare's Big Bowl of Love, Creating Your Best Life, Glory in the Fall: The Greatest Moments in World Series History, 21st Century Crossword Puzzle Dictionary, My Boyfriend Wrote a Book About Me and timeless favorites including Secret Garden and Robinson Crusoe. Learn more about this program at www.nook.com/thebest.
About NOOK(TM) from Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble's NOOK brand of eReading products makes it easy to read what you love, anywhere you like(TM) with a fun, easy-to-use and immersive digital reading experience. With NOOK, customers gain access to Barnes & Noble's expansive NOOK Bookstore(TM) of more than two million digital titles, and the ability to enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices. The award-winning NOOK Color(TM) Reader's Tablet(TM), the best-value on the tablet market ($249), features a stunning 7-inch VividView(TM) Color Touchscreen to read all of the content you love, shop popular apps, connect via e-mail, browse the Web and more. The All-New NOOK ($139), the Simple Touch Reader(TM), is the easiest-to-use 6-inch touch reader, with the longest battery life of any eReader. In Barnes & Noble stores, NOOK owners can access free Wi-Fi connectivity, enjoy the Read In Store(TM) feature to read NOOK Books(TM) for free, and the More In Store(TM) program, which offers free, exclusive content and special promotions. Barnes & Noble was the first company to offer digital lending for a wide selection of books through its LendMe® technology, available through NOOK eReading products. Find NOOK devices in Barnes & Noble stores and online at www.BN.com, as well as at Best Buy, Walmart, Staples and Books-A-Million.
In addition to NOOK devices, Barnes & Noble makes it easy for customers to enjoy any book, anytime, anywhere with its free line of NOOK software, available at www.bn.com/freenookapps. Customers can use Barnes & Noble's free eReading software to access and read books from their personal Barnes & Noble digital library on devices including iPad(TM), iPhone®, iPod touch®, Android(TM) smartphones and tablets BlackBerry®, PC and Mac®. Lifetime Library(TM) helps ensure that Barnes & Noble customers will always be able to access their digital libraries on NOOK products and software-enabled devices and BN.com. Barnes & Noble also offers NOOK Study(TM) (www.nookstudy.com), an innovative study platform and software solution for higher education, NOOK Kids(TM) (www.nookkids.com), a collection of digital picture and chapter books for children, and NOOK Books en español(TM) (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ebooksenespanol), the first-ever Spanish language digital bookstore in the United States.
For more information on NOOK devices and eReading software, updates, new NOOK Book releases, Free Friday(TM) NOOK Books and more, follow us on www.twitter.com/ebooksbn and www.facebook.com/nookbn.
- Be of Good Cheer!
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Angry Birds on Nook Color
Barnes & Noble Brings First-Ever Angry Birds "Magic Places" Enhanced Play to NOOK Color(TM) Customers In-Store
Exclusively Unlock Free Mighty Eagle Character for In-Store Game Play
Only on Angry Birds for NOOK Color Reader's Tablet(TM)
More than 700 Barnes & Noble Stores are First Official Real-World Locations Adding New Elements to World's Bestselling Angry Birds Game
Experience the Bestselling Angry Birds NOOK App(TM) and Shop for New Themed Toys and Games at Barnes & Noble Stores
New York, New York - June 28, 2011 - The Angry Birds' Mighty Eagle has landed at Barnes & Noble stores today, exclusively for NOOK Color customers. Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, announced that its more than 700 bookstores across the country are the first official Angry Birds "Magic Places," offering NOOK Color customers the ability to add a new fun, physical element to their Angry Birds gameplay in-store this summer. Beginning today, NOOK Color customers with the bestselling Angry Birds NOOK App can, for the first time ever, exclusively add the Mighty Eagle character to their arsenal at no cost when playing the game in a Barnes & Noble bookstore. Store visitors will also find an array of Angry Bird-themed games, toys and merchandise, and in the coming days, free Angry Birds stickers and temporary tattoos, while supplies last.
Barnes & Noble worked closely with Rovio, the creator of the global blockbuster, Angry Birds, to offer the first-ever exclusive "Magic Place" experience to NOOK Color customers and make Barnes & Noble stores the first real-world locations where Angry Birds fans can magically receive in-game rewards and unlockables. In-store NOOK Color devices with the Angry Birds NOOK App ($2.99) connect automatically to the fast and free Wi-Fi® to unlock the Mighty Eagle character at no cost. While playing Angry Birds on NOOK Color in a Barnes & Noble store, customers can use the Mighty Eagle to overcome challenging levels and earn Eagle Score points. Game play on a NOOK Color is fun and immersive as players dish out revenge to the green pigs who threaten the survival of the Angry Birds, all using NOOK Color's stunning 7-inch color touchscreen.
"We are thrilled to partner with Rovio to bring NOOK Color customers in Barnes & Noble stores an exciting, seamless experience featuring the number one game in the world," said Jamie Iannone, President of Digital Products, Barnes & Noble. "We’ve already experienced great success with NOOK Apps and Angry Birds as our bestseller, and believe NOOK Color customers will enjoy being the first in the world to access Angry Birds 'Magic Places.' We invite all Angry Birds fans to visit our in-store NOOK Boutiques to try this fun experience on one of our many NOOK Color demonstration units."
"We're very glad to make Angry Birds available for NOOK Color and bring the game to another successful platform," said Peter Vesterbacka, Mighty Eagle and Chief Marketing Officer at Rovio. "Most importantly, we're super excited to take the first step towards taking Angry Birds to physical locations around the world. We're proud to partner with Barnes & Noble in introducing the first Angry Birds 'Magic Places' in the world: by visiting Barnes & Noble stores, Angry Birds fans with NOOK Color will be able to unlock new fun experiences - for free!"
Angry Birds, along with many other high-quality, popular NOOK Apps, are available to NOOK Color customers to enjoy on the highly acclaimed, bestselling Reader's Tablet. NOOK Color customers can also read everything - books, magazines, children's books and more - in rich, beautiful color on the device, from Barnes & Noble's expansive digital bookstore of more than 2 million titles. NOOK Color also features built-in e-mail, an enhanced Web browsing experience and more. Learn more about NOOK Color at www.nookcolor.com.
About NOOK(TM) from Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble's NOOK brand of eReading products makes it easy to read what you love, anywhere you like(TM) with a fun, easy-to-use and immersive digital reading experience. With NOOK, customers gain access to Barnes & Noble's expansive NOOK Bookstore(TM) of more than two million digital titles, and the ability to enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices. The award-winning NOOK Color(TM) Reader's Tablet(TM), the best-value on the tablet market ($249), features a stunning 7-inch VividView(TM) Color Touchscreen to read all of the content you love, shop popular apps, connect via e-mail, browse the Web and more. The All-New NOOK ($139), the Simple Touch Reader(TM), is the easiest-to-use 6-inch touch reader, with the longest battery life of any eReader. In Barnes & Noble stores, NOOK owners can access free Wi-Fi connectivity, enjoy the Read In Store(TM) feature to read NOOK Books(TM) for free, and the More In Store(TM) program, which offers free, exclusive content and special promotions. Barnes & Noble was the first company to offer digital lending for a wide selection of books through its LendMe® technology, available through NOOK eReading products. Find NOOK devices in Barnes & Noble stores and online at www.BN.com, as well as at Best Buy, Walmart, Staples and Books-A-Million.
In addition to NOOK devices, Barnes & Noble makes it easy for customers to enjoy any book, anytime, anywhere with its free line of NOOK software, available at www.bn.com/freenookapps. Customers can use Barnes & Noble's free eReading software to access and read books from their personal Barnes & Noble digital library on devices including iPad(TM), iPhone®, iPod touch®, Android(TM) smartphones and tablets BlackBerry®, PC and Mac®. Lifetime Library(TM) helps ensure that Barnes & Noble customers will always be able to access their digital libraries on NOOK products and software-enabled devices and BN.com. Barnes & Noble also offers NOOK Study(TM) (www.nookstudy.com), an innovative study platform and software solution for higher education, NOOK Kids(TM) (www.nookkids.com), a collection of digital picture and chapter books for children, and NOOK Books en español(TM) (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ebooksenespanol), the first-ever Spanish language digital bookstore in the United States.
For more information on NOOK devices and eReading software, updates, new NOOK Book releases, Free Friday(TM) NOOK Books and more, follow us on www.twitter.com/ebooksbn and www.facebook.com/nookbn.
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Exclusively Unlock Free Mighty Eagle Character for In-Store Game Play
Only on Angry Birds for NOOK Color Reader's Tablet(TM)
More than 700 Barnes & Noble Stores are First Official Real-World Locations Adding New Elements to World's Bestselling Angry Birds Game
Experience the Bestselling Angry Birds NOOK App(TM) and Shop for New Themed Toys and Games at Barnes & Noble Stores
New York, New York - June 28, 2011 - The Angry Birds' Mighty Eagle has landed at Barnes & Noble stores today, exclusively for NOOK Color customers. Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, announced that its more than 700 bookstores across the country are the first official Angry Birds "Magic Places," offering NOOK Color customers the ability to add a new fun, physical element to their Angry Birds gameplay in-store this summer. Beginning today, NOOK Color customers with the bestselling Angry Birds NOOK App can, for the first time ever, exclusively add the Mighty Eagle character to their arsenal at no cost when playing the game in a Barnes & Noble bookstore. Store visitors will also find an array of Angry Bird-themed games, toys and merchandise, and in the coming days, free Angry Birds stickers and temporary tattoos, while supplies last.
Barnes & Noble worked closely with Rovio, the creator of the global blockbuster, Angry Birds, to offer the first-ever exclusive "Magic Place" experience to NOOK Color customers and make Barnes & Noble stores the first real-world locations where Angry Birds fans can magically receive in-game rewards and unlockables. In-store NOOK Color devices with the Angry Birds NOOK App ($2.99) connect automatically to the fast and free Wi-Fi® to unlock the Mighty Eagle character at no cost. While playing Angry Birds on NOOK Color in a Barnes & Noble store, customers can use the Mighty Eagle to overcome challenging levels and earn Eagle Score points. Game play on a NOOK Color is fun and immersive as players dish out revenge to the green pigs who threaten the survival of the Angry Birds, all using NOOK Color's stunning 7-inch color touchscreen.
"We are thrilled to partner with Rovio to bring NOOK Color customers in Barnes & Noble stores an exciting, seamless experience featuring the number one game in the world," said Jamie Iannone, President of Digital Products, Barnes & Noble. "We’ve already experienced great success with NOOK Apps and Angry Birds as our bestseller, and believe NOOK Color customers will enjoy being the first in the world to access Angry Birds 'Magic Places.' We invite all Angry Birds fans to visit our in-store NOOK Boutiques to try this fun experience on one of our many NOOK Color demonstration units."
"We're very glad to make Angry Birds available for NOOK Color and bring the game to another successful platform," said Peter Vesterbacka, Mighty Eagle and Chief Marketing Officer at Rovio. "Most importantly, we're super excited to take the first step towards taking Angry Birds to physical locations around the world. We're proud to partner with Barnes & Noble in introducing the first Angry Birds 'Magic Places' in the world: by visiting Barnes & Noble stores, Angry Birds fans with NOOK Color will be able to unlock new fun experiences - for free!"
Angry Birds, along with many other high-quality, popular NOOK Apps, are available to NOOK Color customers to enjoy on the highly acclaimed, bestselling Reader's Tablet. NOOK Color customers can also read everything - books, magazines, children's books and more - in rich, beautiful color on the device, from Barnes & Noble's expansive digital bookstore of more than 2 million titles. NOOK Color also features built-in e-mail, an enhanced Web browsing experience and more. Learn more about NOOK Color at www.nookcolor.com.
About NOOK(TM) from Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble's NOOK brand of eReading products makes it easy to read what you love, anywhere you like(TM) with a fun, easy-to-use and immersive digital reading experience. With NOOK, customers gain access to Barnes & Noble's expansive NOOK Bookstore(TM) of more than two million digital titles, and the ability to enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices. The award-winning NOOK Color(TM) Reader's Tablet(TM), the best-value on the tablet market ($249), features a stunning 7-inch VividView(TM) Color Touchscreen to read all of the content you love, shop popular apps, connect via e-mail, browse the Web and more. The All-New NOOK ($139), the Simple Touch Reader(TM), is the easiest-to-use 6-inch touch reader, with the longest battery life of any eReader. In Barnes & Noble stores, NOOK owners can access free Wi-Fi connectivity, enjoy the Read In Store(TM) feature to read NOOK Books(TM) for free, and the More In Store(TM) program, which offers free, exclusive content and special promotions. Barnes & Noble was the first company to offer digital lending for a wide selection of books through its LendMe® technology, available through NOOK eReading products. Find NOOK devices in Barnes & Noble stores and online at www.BN.com, as well as at Best Buy, Walmart, Staples and Books-A-Million.
In addition to NOOK devices, Barnes & Noble makes it easy for customers to enjoy any book, anytime, anywhere with its free line of NOOK software, available at www.bn.com/freenookapps. Customers can use Barnes & Noble's free eReading software to access and read books from their personal Barnes & Noble digital library on devices including iPad(TM), iPhone®, iPod touch®, Android(TM) smartphones and tablets BlackBerry®, PC and Mac®. Lifetime Library(TM) helps ensure that Barnes & Noble customers will always be able to access their digital libraries on NOOK products and software-enabled devices and BN.com. Barnes & Noble also offers NOOK Study(TM) (www.nookstudy.com), an innovative study platform and software solution for higher education, NOOK Kids(TM) (www.nookkids.com), a collection of digital picture and chapter books for children, and NOOK Books en español(TM) (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ebooksenespanol), the first-ever Spanish language digital bookstore in the United States.
For more information on NOOK devices and eReading software, updates, new NOOK Book releases, Free Friday(TM) NOOK Books and more, follow us on www.twitter.com/ebooksbn and www.facebook.com/nookbn.
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Essentials in Young Adult Books
(NASDAQ: AMZN)-- Amazon.com today announced Essentials in Young Adult Books, a new feature designed to offer teens and parents a selection of timeless fiction outside the classroom that young adult readers will enjoy. Essentials in Young Adult Books (www.amazon.com/youngadultessentials) will comprise two separate lists of ten books each: Editorial Essentials and Customer Selected Essentials.
"We're not sure which statement is truer: that teens can be insatiable readers or that they're hard to shop for," said Jessica Schein, Amazon.com Young Adult Books Specialist. "Our goal with Essentials in Young Adult Books is to help adults choose the best editorially curated must-have books for young adult readers. We also know that young adult readers rely on peer recommendations, and so we hope that the Customer Selected Essentials sparks a dialogue with our customers about the best books for that age group."
The Editorial Essentials list was compiled by Amazon Books Editors and will be revised regularly to remain relevant. Today, the Editorial Essential list is available for young adults or their parents and includes:
"Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson: Shunned by her peers, Melinda Sordino keeps quiet about the night in which everything changed. Will she ever rediscover her voice and tell the truth? "Speak" is an honestly-told, powerful look at the ways in which we cope with personal tragedy.
"Monster" by Walter Dean Myers: Steve Harmon is on trial for murder, but is he the menace the prosecutor paints him out to be or was he merely in the wrong place at the wrong time? At the heart of this riveting novel is a teenager caught up in an adult world - a situation to which many young adults can relate.
"The Giver" by Lois Lowry: This gripping dystopian novel published well before the current trend emerged centers on Jonas, a model member of the Community. As the next Receiver of Memory he is suddenly aware of his society's sacrifices for peace and predictability and begins to wonder what it's all worth.
"The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie: Disappointed with the schooling on his Indian Reservation and tired of being tormented for his physical problems, Arnold Spirit decides to attend an all-white high school and is immediately out of place. "Diary" is the humorous and honest story about one teenager's quest to do his best in the face of serious obstacles.
"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak: Set against the backdrop of the impending WWII, "The Book Thief" is about Liesel Meminger, a curious girl who begins stealing books in her new town and along the way touches many - including Death - the unique narrator of this captivating novel.
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan: Two different teenage boys; one same name. Such is the premise of "Will Grayson, Will Grayson",a funny, smart novel where the characters literally take to the stage to find out who they really are.
"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky: Charlie prefers observing over being observed in this must-read coming-of-age novel about the realizations that come with the firsts of high school - love, experimentation with drugs, losing friends, and generally trying out independence.
"Crank" by Ellen Hopkins: A gritty novel-in-verse about one girl's descent into a dangerous drug addiction and the consequences of seeking out another high.
"Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher: Clay Jenson is one of 13 people who receive a series of tapes by a classmate that reveal what led to her suicide. Brilliant, beautiful, and devastating, "Thirteen Reasons Why" explores the cost of how people treat one another.
"The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman: Lyra Belacqua is suddenly in the middle of a world of intrigue that involves kidnappings, something called intercision, and a plan to undo the very foundations of her realm. After arriving in the Arctic Circle, she finds that she is the key to saving not just her parallel universe but our own as well in this exhilarating and spellbinding fantasy novel.
Starting today, Amazon.com customers can submit their votes for Customer Selected Essentials in the Amazon.com Customer Selected Essential Books for Young Adults Sweepstakes. Customers can visit www.amazon.com/customeressentialsya to submit suggestions and enter the sweepstakes, and the books with the most votes will be announced on 8/15/2011. Eligible customers who submit a nomination will be entered for a chance to win a set of the Editorial Essentials collection. There is no purchase necessary, and the sweepstakes ends 7/31/2011. See official rules at www.amazon.com/customeressentialsya for more information.
For more information on Essentials in Young Adult Books, please visit www.amazon.com/youngadultessentials.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle with Special Offers, Kindle 3G with Special Offers and Kindle DX are the revolutionary portable readers that wirelessly download books, magazines, newspapers, blogs and personal documents to a crisp, high-resolution electronic ink display that looks and reads like real paper. Kindle 3G, Kindle 3G with Special Offers and Kindle DX utilize the same 3G wireless technology as advanced cell phones, so users never need to hunt for a Wi-Fi hotspot. Kindle is the #1 bestselling product across the millions of items sold on Amazon.
Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, www.amazon.cn, and www.amazon.it. As used herein, "Amazon.com," "we," "our" and similar terms include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to competition, management of growth, new products, services and technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption, inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.
SOURCE: Amazon.com, Inc.
"We're not sure which statement is truer: that teens can be insatiable readers or that they're hard to shop for," said Jessica Schein, Amazon.com Young Adult Books Specialist. "Our goal with Essentials in Young Adult Books is to help adults choose the best editorially curated must-have books for young adult readers. We also know that young adult readers rely on peer recommendations, and so we hope that the Customer Selected Essentials sparks a dialogue with our customers about the best books for that age group."
The Editorial Essentials list was compiled by Amazon Books Editors and will be revised regularly to remain relevant. Today, the Editorial Essential list is available for young adults or their parents and includes:
"Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson: Shunned by her peers, Melinda Sordino keeps quiet about the night in which everything changed. Will she ever rediscover her voice and tell the truth? "Speak" is an honestly-told, powerful look at the ways in which we cope with personal tragedy.
"Monster" by Walter Dean Myers: Steve Harmon is on trial for murder, but is he the menace the prosecutor paints him out to be or was he merely in the wrong place at the wrong time? At the heart of this riveting novel is a teenager caught up in an adult world - a situation to which many young adults can relate.
"The Giver" by Lois Lowry: This gripping dystopian novel published well before the current trend emerged centers on Jonas, a model member of the Community. As the next Receiver of Memory he is suddenly aware of his society's sacrifices for peace and predictability and begins to wonder what it's all worth.
"The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie: Disappointed with the schooling on his Indian Reservation and tired of being tormented for his physical problems, Arnold Spirit decides to attend an all-white high school and is immediately out of place. "Diary" is the humorous and honest story about one teenager's quest to do his best in the face of serious obstacles.
"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak: Set against the backdrop of the impending WWII, "The Book Thief" is about Liesel Meminger, a curious girl who begins stealing books in her new town and along the way touches many - including Death - the unique narrator of this captivating novel.
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan: Two different teenage boys; one same name. Such is the premise of "Will Grayson, Will Grayson",a funny, smart novel where the characters literally take to the stage to find out who they really are.
"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky: Charlie prefers observing over being observed in this must-read coming-of-age novel about the realizations that come with the firsts of high school - love, experimentation with drugs, losing friends, and generally trying out independence.
"Crank" by Ellen Hopkins: A gritty novel-in-verse about one girl's descent into a dangerous drug addiction and the consequences of seeking out another high.
"Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher: Clay Jenson is one of 13 people who receive a series of tapes by a classmate that reveal what led to her suicide. Brilliant, beautiful, and devastating, "Thirteen Reasons Why" explores the cost of how people treat one another.
"The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman: Lyra Belacqua is suddenly in the middle of a world of intrigue that involves kidnappings, something called intercision, and a plan to undo the very foundations of her realm. After arriving in the Arctic Circle, she finds that she is the key to saving not just her parallel universe but our own as well in this exhilarating and spellbinding fantasy novel.
Starting today, Amazon.com customers can submit their votes for Customer Selected Essentials in the Amazon.com Customer Selected Essential Books for Young Adults Sweepstakes. Customers can visit www.amazon.com/customeressentialsya to submit suggestions and enter the sweepstakes, and the books with the most votes will be announced on 8/15/2011. Eligible customers who submit a nomination will be entered for a chance to win a set of the Editorial Essentials collection. There is no purchase necessary, and the sweepstakes ends 7/31/2011. See official rules at www.amazon.com/customeressentialsya for more information.
For more information on Essentials in Young Adult Books, please visit www.amazon.com/youngadultessentials.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle with Special Offers, Kindle 3G with Special Offers and Kindle DX are the revolutionary portable readers that wirelessly download books, magazines, newspapers, blogs and personal documents to a crisp, high-resolution electronic ink display that looks and reads like real paper. Kindle 3G, Kindle 3G with Special Offers and Kindle DX utilize the same 3G wireless technology as advanced cell phones, so users never need to hunt for a Wi-Fi hotspot. Kindle is the #1 bestselling product across the millions of items sold on Amazon.
Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, www.amazon.cn, and www.amazon.it. As used herein, "Amazon.com," "we," "our" and similar terms include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to competition, management of growth, new products, services and technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption, inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.
SOURCE: Amazon.com, Inc.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Where to Make Money Writing Online
If you follow this blog, you know I write for Suite101, where I am the Feature Writer. I also write for Associated Content. Due to recent Google changes, I've been making money writing about technology for Wikio Experts and I am happy to recommend them for US and UK writers.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Great Deal on a 3G Nook
Daily Steals: "YOUR PURCHASE:
BARNES & NOBLE NOOK™ EREADER WITH FREE 3G & WIFI - HOLDS OVER 1,500 BOOKS & CRISP E-INK DISPLAY - GREAT FATHER'S DAY GIFT
QUANTITY:
PRICE: Subtotal : $79.99
Shipping Charges : $4.99
Total Charges : $84.98"
BARNES & NOBLE NOOK™ EREADER WITH FREE 3G & WIFI - HOLDS OVER 1,500 BOOKS & CRISP E-INK DISPLAY - GREAT FATHER'S DAY GIFT
QUANTITY:
PRICE: Subtotal : $79.99
Shipping Charges : $4.99
Total Charges : $84.98"
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Photos and Images in eBooks: Understanding E Ink Picture Displays | Suite101.com
Photos and Images in eBooks: Understanding E Ink Picture Displays | Suite101.com: "If you read ebooks with illustrations, you have seen gray scale images. Until color E Ink is on ereaders, tablets are the best route to read art ebooks."
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Nook 2 Ships Early
Barnes & Noble Now Shipping The All-New NOOK(TM),
The Simple Touch Reader(TM)
Pre-Ordered Devices Arriving to Customers Ahead of Schedule
New Orders at www.nook.com Will Ship Immediately,
in Time for Father's Day
Experience the Easy-to-Use Touchscreen eReader for Everyone
in Barnes & Noble Stores Beginning Tomorrow; In-stock This Weekend
New York, New York - June 1, 2011 - Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, announced that it began shipping its All-New NOOK yesterday, getting pre-ordered devices to customers well ahead of schedule. New online orders for The Simple Touch Reader are now shipping immediately for delivery in time for Father's Day and summer reading. Customers visiting one of Barnes & Noble's more than 700 stores will be able to try live NOOK demonstration units beginning Thursday, and will find product in-stock in stores beginning this weekend.
The All-New NOOK, introduced by Barnes & Noble just last week, is the easiest-to-use, most intuitive eReader available, with best-in-class battery performance of up to 2 months on a single charge. The device is ultra-light and portable and features a 6-inch full touchscreen with the most advanced E Ink Pearl display for crisp, clear reading even in bright sunlight. NOOK customers can access the world's largest bookstore of more than 2 million books, magazines and newspapers, available via Wi-Fi(R). The All-New NOOK is $139 in Barnes & Noble stores and online at www.nook.com.
"We're excited with pre-order demand for the All-New NOOK to date and are very pleased to deliver this easy-to-use device to our customers earlier than committed," said William Lynch, CEO of Barnes & Noble. "We welcome customers to visit their neighborhood Barnes & Noble store to learn more about NOOK and experience our new light, portable, touch eReader."
- Be of Good Cheer!
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Get a Free Amazon Kindle with an Hotels.com Stay
From the Hotels.com site:
Kindle Terms
1. This offer is valid on a new booking of three (3) or more consecutive nights, for a total of $450 or more before taxes and fees at a participating Price Match Guarantee hotel. ( To use the coupon, you must book by 11:59 PM CT on June 27, 2011 in US currency on the US version of hotels.com or at 800-246-8357 for a stay to be completed by July 31, 2011. Package bookings, bookings made through a group travel service, and bookings made without this coupon code are not eligible.
2. There is a limit of one (1) coupon per booking and a limit of one (1) Kindle per booking. The coupon cannot be combined with other offers. Bookings are subject to availability and the hotel's terms and conditions.
3. Within two (2) weeks of your completed stay, you will receive an e-mail asking you to confirm the shipping address. Kindles will only be shipped to addresses in the 50 United States and the District of Columbia.
4. The Kindle will be shipped to you within six (6) weeks of your redemption request. The Kindle must be redeemed by September 30, 2011.
5. If you change travel dates after using the coupon, the coupon will only apply to the changed schedule if it complies with the requirements set forth above. If you cancel your stay, you will not receive a Kindle.
6. This coupon is not redeemable for cash, may not be transferred or sold, and is void where prohibited by law. This offer is subject to change at any time.
Kindle Terms
1. This offer is valid on a new booking of three (3) or more consecutive nights, for a total of $450 or more before taxes and fees at a participating Price Match Guarantee hotel. ( To use the coupon, you must book by 11:59 PM CT on June 27, 2011 in US currency on the US version of hotels.com or at 800-246-8357 for a stay to be completed by July 31, 2011. Package bookings, bookings made through a group travel service, and bookings made without this coupon code are not eligible.
2. There is a limit of one (1) coupon per booking and a limit of one (1) Kindle per booking. The coupon cannot be combined with other offers. Bookings are subject to availability and the hotel's terms and conditions.
3. Within two (2) weeks of your completed stay, you will receive an e-mail asking you to confirm the shipping address. Kindles will only be shipped to addresses in the 50 United States and the District of Columbia.
4. The Kindle will be shipped to you within six (6) weeks of your redemption request. The Kindle must be redeemed by September 30, 2011.
5. If you change travel dates after using the coupon, the coupon will only apply to the changed schedule if it complies with the requirements set forth above. If you cancel your stay, you will not receive a Kindle.
6. This coupon is not redeemable for cash, may not be transferred or sold, and is void where prohibited by law. This offer is subject to change at any time.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Kindle Drops the Price of Kindle 3G by Adding Ads
Last month, Amazon.com introduced Kindle with Special Offers, a new member of the Kindle family that gives customers access to money-saving special offers. Just five weeks later, Kindle with Special Offers became the bestselling member of the Kindle family in the U.S. Today, Amazon announced that it is now making special offers available for Kindle 3G. Kindle 3G with Special Offers is available starting today for only $164 and ships immediately. At just $164, Kindle 3G with Special Offers is the lowest price of any 3G e-reader, and includes the latest Pearl electronic ink display. Learn more about the entire Kindle family, including the $114 Kindle with Special Offers and the new $164 Kindle 3G with Special Offers, at www.amazon.com/kindle3G.
"Kindle is the bestselling e-reader in the world. It's been just six weeks since we introduced the new $114 Kindle with Special Offers, and already customers have made it the bestselling member of the Kindle family," said Jay Marine, Director, Amazon Kindle. "In response to customer requests, we're now making these money-saving special offers available for Kindle 3G. You will get all the features readers love about Kindle 3G - free 3G wireless, global wireless access, Pearl electronic ink display that's easy to read even in bright sunlight, access to over 950,000 'Buy Once, Read Everywhere' Kindle books - all for just $164 - the lowest price for any 3G e-reader."
Special offers that will be available in the coming weeks include:
- $10 for a $20 Amazon.com Gift Card - customers loved this offer, so we're making it available again in time for Father's Day
- Save up to $500 off Amazon's already low prices on HDTVs with a unique 20% discount on 200 HDTVs from brands including Sony, Panasonic, LG, and VIZIO
- $1 for a Kindle book, choose from thousands of books including Water for Elephants and the Hunger Games trilogy
- Spend $10 on Kindle books and get a free $10 Amazon.com Gift Card
Kindle 3G with Special Offers includes all the same features that helped make the third-generation Kindle the #1 bestselling product in the history of Amazon.com:
- Free 3G wireless , no annual contracts, no monthly fees
- Global 3G coverage means books in under 60 seconds in over 100 countries and territories
- Paper-like Pearl electronic ink display, no glare even in bright sunlight
- Lightweight 8.7 ounce body for hours of comfortable reading with one hand
- Up to two months of battery life with wireless off eliminates battery anxiety
- Kindle Store with over 950,000 books - largest selection of the most popular books
- Seamless integration with free "Buy Once, Read Everywhere" Kindle apps for Android, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, PC, Mac, BlackBerry and Windows Phone
Kindle 3G with Special Offers is available for immediate shipment to customers in the U.S. at www.amazon.com/kindle3G.
Learn more about the new Kindle 3G with Special Offers at www.amazon.com/aboutkindlespecialoffers. Advertisers and agencies interested in learning more about Kindle sponsorship opportunities can contact kindle-sponsorships@amazon.com.
Details about new B&N Nook
Barnes & Noble Introduces The All-New NOOK, The Simple Touch Reader
Best Battery Life Ever Up to an Incredible Two Months on a Single Charge
Ultra-Light and Compact for Optimal Portability, Lighter than a Paperback
Full Touchscreen with E Ink® Pearl Display Technology for Reading Anywhere
Optimized Display Performance Offers 80 Percent Less Flashing
than Any Other eReader for the Most Immersive Reading Experience
The Most Intuitive, Easy-to-Use eReader for Everyone
Barnes & Noble Expert Recommendations,
Plus the Most Social Reading Experience with NOOK Friends
Pre-Order for $139 in Time for Fathers Day and Summer Reading
New York, New York May 24, 2011 Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the worlds largest bookseller, today expanded its bestselling digital reading offering with the All-New NOOK, The Simple Touch Reader. With a full touchscreen, NOOK features record-setting, extra-long battery life on the easiest-to-use, ultra-light, portable 6-inch eReader with the most-advanced E Ink Pearl display, and the worlds largest bookstore available by Wi-Fi®. Now available for pre-order at www.nook.com and at Barnes & Noble stores for just $139, NOOK will begin shipping on or about June 10. Barnes & Noble adds the All-New NOOK, a significant leap forward in the dedicated eReader category, to a product line that includes the bestselling NOOK Color, the only Readers Tablet. Based on the success of the NOOK product line, combined with focus on the absolute best reading experience, Barnes & Noble now claims more than 25 percent of the digital book market just 18 months after launching NOOK 1st Edition.
Barnes & Noble has always recognized the simplicity and ease that the element of touch brings to its NOOK product line, and the All-New NOOK is no exception. With a simple tap to the 6-inch touchscreen, its intuitive and easy to navigate, shop and read. Customers can look up words, highlight passages, adjust the font size and style or search by typing on the responsive on-screen keyboard that appears only when a customer needs it. The paper-like E Ink display features crisp, clear text thats great for reading anywhere, even in bright sunlight. The no-glare display offers 50 percent more contrast than NOOK 1st Edition.
At only 7.48 ounces (212 grams), the artfully designed All-New NOOK is lightweight and thin 35 percent lighter and 15 percent thinner than NOOK Wi-Fi 1st Edition. Lighter than a paperback, NOOKs sleek but durable, compact design (6.5 inches high by 5 inches wide by 0.47 inches deep) makes it easy to fit in a jacket, pocket, purse or backpack, holding up to 1,000 digital books and more personal content using the expandable memory slot. Its ergonomic, contoured design with a soft-touch back makes it easy and comfortable to read, even with just one hand, and for extended periods of time. And thanks to best-in-class battery life, read for up to 2 months on a single charge with Wi-Fi off thats twice as long as the other leading eReader available.
Barnes & Nobles use of the latest-generation E Ink screen and proprietary technology offers unmatched performance on the All-New NOOK, delivering a seamless and immersive reading experience. NOOK offers 80 percent less flashing than other eReaders whether turning pages, browsing for books or scrolling through your library. Page turns are lightning fast, using the touchscreen or well-placed side buttons, and with the new Fast Page feature, just press and hold a side button to quickly scan through content and skip right to the desired section.
We set out to design the easiest-to-use, most optimized, dedicated reading device ever created and accomplished it with the All-New NOOK, said William Lynch, Chief Executive Officer of Barnes & Noble. Touch makes it simple to use, and the beautifully compact design makes it the most portable eReader in its class. Add to that an unmatched battery life, the most advanced paper-like touch display on the market and wireless access to the worlds largest digital bookstore, and we believe that for readers of all ages, the All-New NOOK is the best eReader on the market, and a great value at $139.
The Worlds Largest Bookstore in Your Pocket
With the All-New NOOK, customers can enjoy a wide variety of digital content, all at their fingertips. Shop for everything from new releases and current bestsellers to classics and more, all in a single search. The NOOK Bookstore offers one of the most expansive digital catalogs of more than two million books, magazines and newspapers. Enjoy helpful recommendations from Barnes & Nobles experts, personalized based on customers favored authors and genres, to decide what to read next. Have more than 80 popular national and local market newspapers and magazines from the NOOK Newsstand automatically delivered to NOOK the moment theyre released, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and USA TODAY, as well as Forbes, Readers Digest, Discover, Fast Company and New York magazine. All periodicals are available for subscription with a 14-day free trial or via single copies.
Most NOOK Books are $9.99 or less, including most of The New York Times Bestsellers, plus theres over a million free classics. Enjoy more than 100,000 titles from independent publishers and self-publishing authors using Barnes & Nobles PubIt! digital publishing platform. Young readers will find more than 12,000 NOOK Kids chapter books in Barnes & Nobles worlds largest collection of digital childrens content. Sample NOOK Book titles for free and download all content wirelessly over a Wi-Fi connection in just seconds.
When customers visit Barnes & Noble stores with their All-New NOOK, the shopping and reading experience gets even better. Connect to free and fast Wi-Fi and browse complete NOOK Books for free through the companys innovative Read In Store program and get exclusive content and special promotions through the More In Store program. NOOK customers receive access at more than 24,000 AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots, as well as other personal and public hotspots to browse, buy and download new content wirelessly.
Get Social with NOOK Friends
Another way NOOK customers can learn more about great books is through NOOK Friends, an exciting social experience previously available only to NOOK Color customers. From the home page, customers can see book recommendations from friends. See what your friends have posted about their current read, swap recommendations, share reading status, favorite quotes, and much more. Through Twitter(R) and Facebook(R) integrations, right from their current book, customers can tweet the title theyre reading, post on their Facebook wall and see what their NOOK Friends like on Facebook. With Barnes & Nobles exclusive LendMe(R) technology, you can also lend eligible books to your friends at no cost for 14 days, and see and request to borrow friends LendMe books.
And coming in the next few weeks, Barnes & Noble will offer a new custom website, mynook.com, where customers can get recommendations from Barnes & Noble expert booksellers and NOOK Friends, access their NOOK Library, and manage their device.
Read Your Way
Customers can customize their All-New NOOK and reading experience to their liking. Choose from 7 font sizes and 6 font styles. NOOK owners can personalize their device with one of Barnes & Nobles screen savers or transfer personal photos (JPG, PNG, BMP and GIF) to make NOOK their own, and choose from a complete line of exclusive, new NOOK accessories (www.nook.com/accessories) to show their style wherever they go. They can also create personalized My Shelves to organize their NOOK Library and group reading content similar to their bookcase.
Read Everywhere
A customers entire NOOK Library follows them wherever they go. They can also easily transfer personal EPUB and PDF files to their All-New NOOK device to read documents on the go using the 2GB internal memory or a microSD card. Since the All-New NOOK is built on Android Operating System 2.1 and uses Adobe technology, device owners can also borrow digital books from their local library, a feature Barnes & Noble has always offered to NOOK device customers. Customers can also read seamlessly, accessing their NOOK Library and sync the last page read across their NOOK devices and their favorite mobile and computing devices using Barnes & Nobles free line of eReading software (www.bn.com/freenookapps).
Availability
The All-New NOOK can be pre-ordered for $139 today and is expected to begin shipping on or about June 10, making it the perfect gift for dads and grads, and a great addition for every book lovers summer reading wish list. Experience the All-New NOOK at www.nook.com or at the NOOK Boutiques and displays in one of Barnes & Nobles more than 700 bookstores. With The Barnes & Noble Promise, the company offers unmatched customer support in neighborhood Barnes & Noble bookstores, as more than 40,000 booksellers across the country are ready to assist customers with setting up their NOOKs or choosing their next great read. The company also continues to provide award-winning customer service support via phone and email. The All-New NOOK will also be available beginning next month at Best Buy, Walmart, Staples and Books-A-Million, along with NOOK Color.
- Be of Good Cheer!
Best Battery Life Ever Up to an Incredible Two Months on a Single Charge
Ultra-Light and Compact for Optimal Portability, Lighter than a Paperback
Full Touchscreen with E Ink® Pearl Display Technology for Reading Anywhere
Optimized Display Performance Offers 80 Percent Less Flashing
than Any Other eReader for the Most Immersive Reading Experience
The Most Intuitive, Easy-to-Use eReader for Everyone
Barnes & Noble Expert Recommendations,
Plus the Most Social Reading Experience with NOOK Friends
Pre-Order for $139 in Time for Fathers Day and Summer Reading
New York, New York May 24, 2011 Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the worlds largest bookseller, today expanded its bestselling digital reading offering with the All-New NOOK, The Simple Touch Reader. With a full touchscreen, NOOK features record-setting, extra-long battery life on the easiest-to-use, ultra-light, portable 6-inch eReader with the most-advanced E Ink Pearl display, and the worlds largest bookstore available by Wi-Fi®. Now available for pre-order at www.nook.com and at Barnes & Noble stores for just $139, NOOK will begin shipping on or about June 10. Barnes & Noble adds the All-New NOOK, a significant leap forward in the dedicated eReader category, to a product line that includes the bestselling NOOK Color, the only Readers Tablet. Based on the success of the NOOK product line, combined with focus on the absolute best reading experience, Barnes & Noble now claims more than 25 percent of the digital book market just 18 months after launching NOOK 1st Edition.
Barnes & Noble has always recognized the simplicity and ease that the element of touch brings to its NOOK product line, and the All-New NOOK is no exception. With a simple tap to the 6-inch touchscreen, its intuitive and easy to navigate, shop and read. Customers can look up words, highlight passages, adjust the font size and style or search by typing on the responsive on-screen keyboard that appears only when a customer needs it. The paper-like E Ink display features crisp, clear text thats great for reading anywhere, even in bright sunlight. The no-glare display offers 50 percent more contrast than NOOK 1st Edition.
At only 7.48 ounces (212 grams), the artfully designed All-New NOOK is lightweight and thin 35 percent lighter and 15 percent thinner than NOOK Wi-Fi 1st Edition. Lighter than a paperback, NOOKs sleek but durable, compact design (6.5 inches high by 5 inches wide by 0.47 inches deep) makes it easy to fit in a jacket, pocket, purse or backpack, holding up to 1,000 digital books and more personal content using the expandable memory slot. Its ergonomic, contoured design with a soft-touch back makes it easy and comfortable to read, even with just one hand, and for extended periods of time. And thanks to best-in-class battery life, read for up to 2 months on a single charge with Wi-Fi off thats twice as long as the other leading eReader available.
Barnes & Nobles use of the latest-generation E Ink screen and proprietary technology offers unmatched performance on the All-New NOOK, delivering a seamless and immersive reading experience. NOOK offers 80 percent less flashing than other eReaders whether turning pages, browsing for books or scrolling through your library. Page turns are lightning fast, using the touchscreen or well-placed side buttons, and with the new Fast Page feature, just press and hold a side button to quickly scan through content and skip right to the desired section.
We set out to design the easiest-to-use, most optimized, dedicated reading device ever created and accomplished it with the All-New NOOK, said William Lynch, Chief Executive Officer of Barnes & Noble. Touch makes it simple to use, and the beautifully compact design makes it the most portable eReader in its class. Add to that an unmatched battery life, the most advanced paper-like touch display on the market and wireless access to the worlds largest digital bookstore, and we believe that for readers of all ages, the All-New NOOK is the best eReader on the market, and a great value at $139.
The Worlds Largest Bookstore in Your Pocket
With the All-New NOOK, customers can enjoy a wide variety of digital content, all at their fingertips. Shop for everything from new releases and current bestsellers to classics and more, all in a single search. The NOOK Bookstore offers one of the most expansive digital catalogs of more than two million books, magazines and newspapers. Enjoy helpful recommendations from Barnes & Nobles experts, personalized based on customers favored authors and genres, to decide what to read next. Have more than 80 popular national and local market newspapers and magazines from the NOOK Newsstand automatically delivered to NOOK the moment theyre released, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and USA TODAY, as well as Forbes, Readers Digest, Discover, Fast Company and New York magazine. All periodicals are available for subscription with a 14-day free trial or via single copies.
Most NOOK Books are $9.99 or less, including most of The New York Times Bestsellers, plus theres over a million free classics. Enjoy more than 100,000 titles from independent publishers and self-publishing authors using Barnes & Nobles PubIt! digital publishing platform. Young readers will find more than 12,000 NOOK Kids chapter books in Barnes & Nobles worlds largest collection of digital childrens content. Sample NOOK Book titles for free and download all content wirelessly over a Wi-Fi connection in just seconds.
When customers visit Barnes & Noble stores with their All-New NOOK, the shopping and reading experience gets even better. Connect to free and fast Wi-Fi and browse complete NOOK Books for free through the companys innovative Read In Store program and get exclusive content and special promotions through the More In Store program. NOOK customers receive access at more than 24,000 AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots, as well as other personal and public hotspots to browse, buy and download new content wirelessly.
Get Social with NOOK Friends
Another way NOOK customers can learn more about great books is through NOOK Friends, an exciting social experience previously available only to NOOK Color customers. From the home page, customers can see book recommendations from friends. See what your friends have posted about their current read, swap recommendations, share reading status, favorite quotes, and much more. Through Twitter(R) and Facebook(R) integrations, right from their current book, customers can tweet the title theyre reading, post on their Facebook wall and see what their NOOK Friends like on Facebook. With Barnes & Nobles exclusive LendMe(R) technology, you can also lend eligible books to your friends at no cost for 14 days, and see and request to borrow friends LendMe books.
And coming in the next few weeks, Barnes & Noble will offer a new custom website, mynook.com, where customers can get recommendations from Barnes & Noble expert booksellers and NOOK Friends, access their NOOK Library, and manage their device.
Read Your Way
Customers can customize their All-New NOOK and reading experience to their liking. Choose from 7 font sizes and 6 font styles. NOOK owners can personalize their device with one of Barnes & Nobles screen savers or transfer personal photos (JPG, PNG, BMP and GIF) to make NOOK their own, and choose from a complete line of exclusive, new NOOK accessories (www.nook.com/accessories) to show their style wherever they go. They can also create personalized My Shelves to organize their NOOK Library and group reading content similar to their bookcase.
Read Everywhere
A customers entire NOOK Library follows them wherever they go. They can also easily transfer personal EPUB and PDF files to their All-New NOOK device to read documents on the go using the 2GB internal memory or a microSD card. Since the All-New NOOK is built on Android Operating System 2.1 and uses Adobe technology, device owners can also borrow digital books from their local library, a feature Barnes & Noble has always offered to NOOK device customers. Customers can also read seamlessly, accessing their NOOK Library and sync the last page read across their NOOK devices and their favorite mobile and computing devices using Barnes & Nobles free line of eReading software (www.bn.com/freenookapps).
Availability
The All-New NOOK can be pre-ordered for $139 today and is expected to begin shipping on or about June 10, making it the perfect gift for dads and grads, and a great addition for every book lovers summer reading wish list. Experience the All-New NOOK at www.nook.com or at the NOOK Boutiques and displays in one of Barnes & Nobles more than 700 bookstores. With The Barnes & Noble Promise, the company offers unmatched customer support in neighborhood Barnes & Noble bookstores, as more than 40,000 booksellers across the country are ready to assist customers with setting up their NOOKs or choosing their next great read. The company also continues to provide award-winning customer service support via phone and email. The All-New NOOK will also be available beginning next month at Best Buy, Walmart, Staples and Books-A-Million, along with NOOK Color.
- Be of Good Cheer!
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Google Books Adds Translate, Define and Search to Google eBooks
Google Books Adds Translate, Define and Search to Google eBooks: "When you read Google eBooks in a web-browser, there are new tools that will improve your reading experience."
Friday, May 20, 2011
Will Barnes and Noble be Sold?
Barnes & Noble Board of Directors Announces Proposal from Liberty Media To Acquire Company
Proposal Contingent on Participation of Founding Chairman Leonard Riggio
New York, NY (May 19, 2011)-Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), today announced that the Special Committee of its Board of Directors has received a proposal from Liberty Media to acquire the Company at a price of $17 per share in cash. The proposal is subject to, among other things, the signing of a definitive purchase agreement, customary closing conditions, such as the receipt of regulatory and shareholder approvals, and receipt of acceptable debt financing. The proposal states that it is contingent on the participation of founding chairman Leonard Riggio, both in terms of his continuing equity ownership and his continuing role in management.
The Special Committee of the Board of Directors formed in connection with the Company's review of strategic alternatives will evaluate this proposal and its financial advisors will be Lazard Freres & Co., LLC. Counsel to the Special Committee is Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, and counsel to the Company is Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP.
The Company cautions its shareholders and others considering trading in its securities that the proposal from Liberty Media has not yet been evaluated by the Special Committee and its advisors. There can be no assurance that any definitive offer to acquire the Company will be made, or if made what the terms thereof will be, or that this or any other transaction will be approved or consummated. The Company does not intend to comment further regarding this proposal or the Company's evaluation of strategic alternatives, unless a specific transaction is recommended by the Special Committee.
- Be of Good Cheer!
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Amazon.com Now Selling More Kindle Books Than Print Books
Amazon.com Now Selling More Kindle Books Than Print Books
Kindle with Special Offers for only $114 is already the bestselling member of the Kindle family
SEATTLE, May 19, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
(NASDAQ:AMZN)--Amazon began selling hardcover and paperback books in July 1995. Twelve years later in November 2007, Amazon introduced the revolutionary Kindle and began selling Kindle books. By July 2010, Kindle book sales had surpassed hardcover book sales, and six months later, Kindle books overtook paperback books to become the most popular format on Amazon.com. Today, less than four years after introducing Kindle books, Amazon.com customers are now purchasing more Kindle books than all print books - hardcover and paperback - combined.
"Customers are now choosing Kindle books more often than print books. We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly - we've been selling print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years," said Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO, Amazon.com. "In addition, we're excited by the response to Kindle with Special Offers for only $114, which has quickly become the bestselling member of the Kindle family. We continue to receive positive comments from customers on the low $114 price and the money-saving special offers. We're grateful to our customers for continuing to make Kindle the bestselling e-reader in the world and the Kindle Store the most popular e-bookstore in the world."
Recent milestones for Kindle include:
Since April 1, for every 100 print books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 105 Kindle books. This includes sales of hardcover and paperback books by Amazon where there is no Kindle edition. Free Kindle books are excluded and if included would make the number even higher.
So far in 2011, the tremendous growth of Kindle book sales, combined with the continued growth in Amazon's print book sales, have resulted in the fastest year-over-year growth rate for Amazon's U.S. books business, in both units and dollars, in over 10 years. This includes books in all formats, print and digital. Free books are excluded in the calculation of growth rates.
In the five weeks since its introduction, Kindle with Special Offers for only $114 is already the bestselling member of the Kindle family in the U.S.
Amazon sold more than 3x as many Kindle books so far in 2011 as it did during the same period in 2010.
Less than one year after introducing the UK Kindle Store, Amazon.co.uk is now selling more Kindle books than hardcover books, even as hardcover sales continue to grow. Since April 1, Amazon.co.uk customers are purchasing Kindle books over hardcover books at a rate of more than 2 to 1.
Kindle offers the largest selection of the most popular books people want to read. The U.S. Kindle Store now has more than 950,000 books, including New Releases and 109 of 111 New York Times Best Sellers. Over 790,000 of these books are $9.99 or less, including 69 New York Times Best Sellers. Millions of free, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books are also available to read on Kindle devices. More than 175,000 books have been added to the Kindle Store in just the last 5 months.
All Kindle Books let you "Buy Once, Read Everywhere" - on all generation Kindles, as well as on the largest number of devices and platforms, including iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Android-based devices, and soon HP TouchPads and BlackBerry PlayBooks. Amazon's Whispersync technology syncs your place across devices, so you can pick up where you left off. With Kindle Worry-Free Archive, books you purchase from the Kindle Store are automatically backed up online in your Kindle library on Amazon, where they can be re-downloaded wirelessly for free, anytime.
- Be of Good Cheer!
Kindle with Special Offers for only $114 is already the bestselling member of the Kindle family
SEATTLE, May 19, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
(NASDAQ:AMZN)--Amazon began selling hardcover and paperback books in July 1995. Twelve years later in November 2007, Amazon introduced the revolutionary Kindle and began selling Kindle books. By July 2010, Kindle book sales had surpassed hardcover book sales, and six months later, Kindle books overtook paperback books to become the most popular format on Amazon.com. Today, less than four years after introducing Kindle books, Amazon.com customers are now purchasing more Kindle books than all print books - hardcover and paperback - combined.
"Customers are now choosing Kindle books more often than print books. We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly - we've been selling print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years," said Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO, Amazon.com. "In addition, we're excited by the response to Kindle with Special Offers for only $114, which has quickly become the bestselling member of the Kindle family. We continue to receive positive comments from customers on the low $114 price and the money-saving special offers. We're grateful to our customers for continuing to make Kindle the bestselling e-reader in the world and the Kindle Store the most popular e-bookstore in the world."
Recent milestones for Kindle include:
Since April 1, for every 100 print books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 105 Kindle books. This includes sales of hardcover and paperback books by Amazon where there is no Kindle edition. Free Kindle books are excluded and if included would make the number even higher.
So far in 2011, the tremendous growth of Kindle book sales, combined with the continued growth in Amazon's print book sales, have resulted in the fastest year-over-year growth rate for Amazon's U.S. books business, in both units and dollars, in over 10 years. This includes books in all formats, print and digital. Free books are excluded in the calculation of growth rates.
In the five weeks since its introduction, Kindle with Special Offers for only $114 is already the bestselling member of the Kindle family in the U.S.
Amazon sold more than 3x as many Kindle books so far in 2011 as it did during the same period in 2010.
Less than one year after introducing the UK Kindle Store, Amazon.co.uk is now selling more Kindle books than hardcover books, even as hardcover sales continue to grow. Since April 1, Amazon.co.uk customers are purchasing Kindle books over hardcover books at a rate of more than 2 to 1.
Kindle offers the largest selection of the most popular books people want to read. The U.S. Kindle Store now has more than 950,000 books, including New Releases and 109 of 111 New York Times Best Sellers. Over 790,000 of these books are $9.99 or less, including 69 New York Times Best Sellers. Millions of free, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books are also available to read on Kindle devices. More than 175,000 books have been added to the Kindle Store in just the last 5 months.
All Kindle Books let you "Buy Once, Read Everywhere" - on all generation Kindles, as well as on the largest number of devices and platforms, including iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Android-based devices, and soon HP TouchPads and BlackBerry PlayBooks. Amazon's Whispersync technology syncs your place across devices, so you can pick up where you left off. With Kindle Worry-Free Archive, books you purchase from the Kindle Store are automatically backed up online in your Kindle library on Amazon, where they can be re-downloaded wirelessly for free, anytime.
- Be of Good Cheer!
Monday, May 16, 2011
Nook Color has 1 million apps downloaded !?!
Barnes & Noble Quickly Hits 1 Million NOOK Apps(TM) Downloads by NOOK Color(TM) Customers
Milestone Reached Just One Week After NOOK App Shopping Made Available to All NOOK Color Customers
Angry Birds, Drawing Pad, Fliq Calendar and Pulse Among Most Popular Apps
New York, New York - May 16, 2011 - Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, announced a major new milestone for its recently updated award-winning NOOK Color Reader's Tablet(TM). Just one week after the company made its free software update featuring popular NOOK Apps available over the air for all NOOK Color customers, customers have made more than one million apps downloads. NOOK Color customers are enjoying access to a variety of popular NOOK Apps and downloading a selection of both paid and free apps that get even more out of their Reader's Tablet, and have given the top 10 paid and free NOOK Apps the highest 4 or 5 star rating.
All NOOK Apps are optimized for NOOK Color's stunning 7-inch color touchscreen. The top five paid NOOK Apps are Angry Birds, Drawing Pad, Solitaire, Aces Jewel Hunt and Astraware Mahjong. Among the top five free NOOK Apps are Fliq Calendar, Fliq Notes, Pulse, NOOK Word of the Day(TM) and Fliq Tasks, which help keep customers organized and informed on the highly portable NOOK Color. With the recent v1.2 software update, Barnes & Noble brought the most-requested tablet features to its bestselling NOOK Color, which, in addition to NOOK Apps, includes full-featured built-in email, enhanced Web experience and more exciting content for adults and children. The device, which had already been acclaimed as the best reading device on the market, is now the best tablet value on the market at just $249.
"Our recent software update to NOOK Color delivered the most requested tablet features by our customers, including the ability to shop for and download high-quality apps. Reaching over a million app downloads in just a week since the launch of NOOK App shopping for all NOOK Color customers exceeded expectations, and is an exciting milestone for our developers, publishing partners, and most importantly for our rapidly growing NOOK Color user base," said William Lynch, Chief Executive Officer of Barnes & Noble. "Our stores and booksellers have been a key part of educating our large NOOK customer base on the terrific applications available for them. We're building on the early success of our NOOK Apps offering by scaling our collection of popular apps with the thousands of developers who've approached us, while ensuring we continue to deliver the high-quality experience NOOK Color is known for.
Barnes & Noble continues to bring NOOK Color customers new applications from leading third-party developers and content providers for the whole family to enjoy. In the past weeks, Barnes & Noble has added new NOOK Apps including QuickOffice Pro, FriendCaster for Facebook, UrbanDaddy, more games from Concrete Software including Aces Traffic Pack, Aces Cribbage and PBA Bowling 2, FlightView Elite, RepliGo Reader, and 3001 Wisdom quotes. Recently added NOOK Apps for children include Bloki, My First Alphabet Sights & Sounds and CardDroid Math flash cards. Through the Shop area on the device, NOOK Color customers can easily explore NOOK Apps, available in categories including Play, Organize, Learn, Explore, Lifestyle, News and Kids. Approximately half of the collection available for $2.99 or less and the vast majority priced at $5.99 or less.
- Be of Good Cheer!
Sunday, May 15, 2011
YouVersion is on CNN
My Take: How technology could bring down the church – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs: "Thus the almost-insane popularity of Youversion, a digital Bible available for free on iTunes and developed by a 34-year-old technology buff and Christian pastor from Oklahoma named Bobby Gruenewald. He conceived of it, he told me, while on a layover at Chicago O'Hare International Airport, wishing he had a Bible to read.
“What we’re really trying to address is, how do we increase engagement in the Bible?” he said."
“What we’re really trying to address is, how do we increase engagement in the Bible?” he said."
YouVersion is on CNN! It is in "My Take: How technology could bring down the church – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs."
I've written about YouVersion a lot - and I use it almost daily. I think the author of this article has it wrong -- we are the church. The church is strengthened by digital media, and even if the method has changed, the message hasn't.
Jeff Bezos Discusses the Amazon Kindle, Tablets, and Color E Ink
Jeff Bezos Discusses the Amazon Kindle, Tablets, and Color E Ink: "In a May 11, 2011 Consumer Reports interview with Jeff Bezos, Amazon's CEO shared his thoughts about Kindles and some future possibilities of ebook devices."
Friday, May 13, 2011
Free Fridays for Barnes and Noble Nook (and Amazon Kindle)
This week's free Nook Book, which Amazon matches, is The Four Corners of the Sky by Mjcheal Malone.
- Be of Good Cheer!
- Be of Good Cheer!
Nook News
Barnes & Noble Updates NOOK(TM) for Android(TM) App, Gives Tablet Users Access to Largest Digital Periodical Offering on Android
More than 140 NOOK Newsstand(TM) Titles Including Interactive Magazines
with Exclusive ArticleView(TM) Now Available to Android Tablet Customers
Optimized Reading Experience for Most 7-Inch and Larger Tablets
Including Honeycomb
Free App Now Available in Android Market, V CAST Apps, Samsung Apps, GetJar, and AppsLib
New York, New York - May 13, 2011 - Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, today announced an updated version of its popular, free NOOK for Android eReading application that brings the most comprehensive selection of digital periodicals to customers with Android(TM) tablets including more than 140 top magazine and newspaper brands from ESPN The Magazine and The Economist to Food & Wine and Us Weekly. To take advantage of large and extra large, high-resolution Android tablet screens, NOOK for Android now offers customers an optimized library grid view and reading experience with enhanced book margins and line spacing, as well as an improved shopping experience and more. The new app features are available for popular 7-inch and larger tablets using Android OS 2.1 and higher (Honeycomb).
Today's announcement marks the largest digital newsstand offering for Android tablet customers to date, with more than 140 of the best daily, weekly and monthly periodicals, all optimized for high-resolution displays in rich color. Barnes & Noble's interactive NOOK Magazine(TM) experience, previously available only to NOOK Color(TM) Reader's Tablet(TM) customers, is now available to the Android tablet community, featuring more than 120 popular titles such as Esquire, Maxim, Men's Health, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Popular Science, PC Magazine, Elle, O, The Oprah Magazine, Travel + Leisure and many more. NOOK for Android customers with large tablets can also enjoy favorite NOOK Newspapers(TM) including USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The Chicago Tribune. All can be enjoyed with a 14-day free trial, via subscription or purchased in single issue form.
With NOOK for Android on larger tablets, magazine reading is easy and engaging with full-color pages in landscape and portrait mode, and Barnes & Noble's exclusive ArticleView technology (formerly available only on NOOK Color) which features only the article's text, customized to the reader's favorite style, on a central panel on the display. NOOK Magazines also feature a universal, easy-to-use reading experience with a slider to jump to the desired page, pinch and zoom to enlarge images and more.
"With our free, updated NOOK for Android application, we're delivering customers with Android tablets a great optimized reading experience and access to the largest ever collection of interactive magazines, as well as top newspapers, all optimized for high-resolution displays," said Jamie Iannone, President of Digital Products at Barnes & Noble. "Using their Android tablets, customers can enjoy our collection of more than two million digital books, as well as their morning paper and latest magazines, delivered right to their device through their NOOK for Android app, for an amazing periodical experience which includes our innovative ArticleView feature."
NOOK Newsstand and the optimized book reading experience on NOOK for Android will be available for customers using 7-inch and larger Android OS 2.1 and higher (Honeycomb) tablets with 800 x 480 (160 DPI or less) or higher screen resolution, and include Samsung Galaxy Tab(TM), Motorola XOOM(TM), LG G-Slate(TM) and ARCHOS internet tablets, among others. NOOK for Android customers on smartphones will also enjoy minor performance enhancements.
NOOK for Android gives customers with Android smartphones and tablets access to Barnes & Noble's expansive NOOK Bookstore(TM), one of the world's largest digital content catalogs, with the most NOOK Books(TM) priced at $9.99 or less. As part of Barnes & Noble's promise to "Read What You Love, Anywhere You Like(TM)," customers can enjoy NOOK Books from their Barnes & Noble digital library on their NOOK Color, NOOK eReader devices and mobile and computing devices using free NOOK eReading software or apps.
Expanded App Availability
To make it easy for Android smartphone and tablet customers to find and download the free NOOK for Android app, Barnes & Noble has expanded availability for the free app to include Android Market, V CAST Apps from Verizon Wireless, Samsung Apps, GetJar, and AppsLib, with more to come. NOOK for Android will also be pre-loaded or made available in future firmware upgrades for some of the current leading and highly anticipated Android tablets coming to market. Customers can learn more about NOOK for Android v2.6.1 at www.bn.com/nookforandroid.
About NOOK(TM) from Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble's NOOK brand of eReading products makes it easy to read what you love, anywhere you like with a fun, easy-to-use and immersive digital reading experience. With NOOK, customers gain access to Barnes & Noble's expansive NOOK Bookstore(TM) of more than two million digital titles, and the ability to enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices. NOOK products are the most full-featured, dedicated eReading devices on the market. The award-winning NOOK Color Reader's Tablet, the best-value on the tablet market ($249), features a stunning 7-inch VividView(TM) Color Touchscreen to read all of the content you love, shop popular apps, connect via e-mail, browse the Web and more. For book lovers, NOOK 3G ($199) and NOOK Wi-Fi® ($149) offer a paper-like reading experience with a color touchscreen for navigation. In Barnes & Noble stores, NOOK owners can access free Wi-Fi connectivity, enjoy the Read In Store(TM) feature to read NOOK Books(TM) for free, and the More In Store(TM) program, which offers free, exclusive content and special promotions. Barnes & Noble was the first company to offer digital lending for a wide selection of books through its LendMe(TM) technology, available through NOOK eReading products. Find NOOK devices in Barnes & Noble stores and online at www.BN.com, as well as at Best Buy, Walmart, Staples and Books-A-Million.
In addition to NOOK devices, Barnes & Noble makes it easy for customers to enjoy any book, anytime, anywhere with its free line of NOOK software, available at www.bn.com/nookapps. Customers can use Barnes & Noble's free eReading software to access and read books from their personal Barnes & Noble digital library on devices including iPad(TM), iPhone®, iPod touch®, Android(TM), BlackBerry® and other smartphones, PC and Mac®. Lifetime Library(TM) helps ensure that Barnes & Noble customers will always be able to access their digital libraries on NOOK products and software-enabled devices and BN.com. Barnes & Noble also offers NOOK Study(TM) (www.nookstudy.com), an innovative study platform and software solution for higher education, NOOK Kids(TM) (www.nookkids.com), a collection of digital picture and chapter books for children, and NOOK Books en español(TM) (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ebooksenespanol), the first-ever Spanish language digital bookstore in the United States.
For more information on NOOK devices and eReading software, updates, new NOOK Book releases, Free Friday(TM) NOOK Books and more, follow us on www.twitter.com/ebooksbn and www.facebook.com/nookbn.
- Be of Good Cheer!
Sunday, May 8, 2011
A New Barnes and Noble Nook eReader May Debut May 24, 2011 | Suite101.com
A New Barnes and Noble Nook eReader May Debut May 24, 2011 | Suite101.com: "A Barnes and Noble comment in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing is fueling speculation that a new Nook is planned. What features could we expect?"
Saturday, May 7, 2011
A new adventure at WeFormat!
Alex Sharp | Suite101.com: "Alex and Victoria Nicks are freelance consultants who work transform articles, rough drafts, and perform other acts of ebook magic at wEformat."
We've already started editing, so if you want to turn your articles, rough drafts, essays, stories, poems, plays into ebooks, just let me know! www.weformat.com
The Royal Wedding Comes to NOOK Color(TM) with Exclusive Us Weekly Digital Magazine and NOOK Book(TM) Available Beginning Today - lxwrites@gmail.com
The Royal Wedding Comes to NOOK Color(TM) with Exclusive Us Weekly Digital Magazine and NOOK Book(TM) Available Beginning Today
Relive the Royal Nuptials with Exclusive Us Weekly Special NOOK Magazine(TM): Will & Kate The Royal Wedding: Special Collector's Edition
Revel in Stunning Images in NOOK Book William & Catherine: Their Romance and Royal Wedding in Photographs, Available for a Limited Time Exclusively on NOOK Color
New York, New York - May 6, 2011 - Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, today announced the availability of two exclusive digital Royal Wedding titles available only for NOOK Color customers. Those who want to relive the beauty and excitement of the recent nuptials can enjoy a special exclusive NOOK Magazine from the editors of Us Weekly, Will & Kate The Royal Wedding: Special Collector's Edition, and a stunning NOOK Book from Sterling Publishing, William & Catherine: Their Romance and Royal Wedding in Photographs, available exclusively for a limited time. Both titles depict the romance of Prince William and Kate Middleton that charmed the world, fascinating never-before-seen interviews and more brought to life on the 7-inch VividView(TM) color touchscreen on NOOK Color Reader's Tablet(TM).
"With one of the world's largest digital content collections, we always look to bring our customers the content they love. With these exclusives for NOOK Color owners, we're delivering two exciting and timely titles that recapture the Royal Wedding to be enjoyed for years to come," said Jamie Iannone, President of Digital Products, Barnes & Noble. "Both titles offer customers an inside glimpse at the event that recently captivated the world, with hundreds of images that look amazing on NOOK Color's beautiful display."
The special Will & Kate The Royal Wedding: Special Collector's Edition features more than 130 pictures to view, a look at Prince William and Kate Middleton's love story, Kate's new life as a princess, interviews with family and friends and much more. The NOOK Magazine is available for $9.99 exclusively through NOOK Newsstand(TM) for NOOK Color customers, and the print edition can be found at Barnes & Noble stores or BN.com.
With William & Catherine: Their Romance and Royal Wedding in Photographs, book-loving royal watchers can immerse themselves in the beauty and fairy-tale quality of Prince William's marriage to Kate Middleton with photography and detailed captions, available for a limited time exclusively on NOOK Color. Authored by David Elliot Cohen, the creator of more than thirty illustrated books including The New York Times bestsellers A Day in the Life of America and America 24/7, with a foreword by official NBC royal commentator Robert Jobson, the title is available today for $7.99.
Through more than two hundred spectacular photographs, William & Catherine recounts the couple's wildly different childhoods, their romance and engagement, the events leading up to the wedding, and the grand affair itself. Fans can remember the massive crowds lining the parade route, the sparkling celebrities at Westminster Abbey, the bride's spectacular gown, "The Kisses" on Buckingham Palace's balcony, and the worldwide celebrations. Also included is a brief pictorial history of British royal weddings from Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1840 to Prince Charles and Lady Diana in 1981. The hardcover print edition is available for pre-order now at BN.com and will be available in Barnes & Noble stores beginning May 17.
About NOOK(TM) from Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble's NOOK brand of eReading products makes it easy to read what you love, anywhere you like with a fun, easy-to-use and immersive digital reading experience. With NOOK, customers gain access to Barnes & Noble's expansive NOOK Bookstore(TM) of more than two million digital titles, and the ability to enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices. NOOK products are the most full-featured, dedicated eReading devices on the market. The award-winning NOOK Color Reader's Tablet, the best-value on the tablet market ($249), features a stunning 7-inch VividView(TM) Color Touchscreen to read all of the content you love, shop popular apps, connect via e-mail, browse the Web and more. For book lovers, NOOK 3G ($199) and NOOK Wi-Fi® ($149) offer a paper-like reading experience with a color touchscreen for navigation. In Barnes & Noble stores, NOOK owners can access free Wi-Fi connectivity, enjoy the Read In Store(TM) feature to read NOOK Books(TM) for free, and the More In Store(TM) program, which offers free, exclusive content and special promotions. Barnes & Noble was the first company to offer digital lending for a wide selection of books through its LendMe(TM) technology, available through NOOK eReading products. Find NOOK devices in Barnes & Noble stores and online at www.BN.com, as well as at Best Buy, Walmart, Staples and Books-A-Million.
In addition to NOOK devices, Barnes & Noble makes it easy for customers to enjoy any book, anytime, anywhere with its free line of NOOK software, available at www.bn.com/nookapps. Customers can use Barnes & Noble's free eReading software to access and read books from their personal Barnes & Noble digital library on devices including iPad(TM), iPhone®, iPod touch®, Android(TM), BlackBerry® and other smartphones, PC and Mac®. Lifetime Library(TM) helps ensure that Barnes & Noble customers will always be able to access their digital libraries on NOOK products and software-enabled devices and BN.com. Barnes & Noble also offers NOOK Study(TM) (www.nookstudy.com), an innovative study platform and software solution for higher education, NOOK Kids(TM) (www.nookkids.com), a collection of digital picture and chapter books for children, and NOOK Books en español(TM) (http://www.barnesandnoble.
For more information on NOOK devices and eReading software, updates, new NOOK Book releases, Free Friday(TM) NOOK Books and more, follow us on www.twitter.com/ebooksbn and www.facebook.com/nookbn.
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