Tag: nook

The £80 Android Tablet

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The Nook HD, now available for just £79 for 8GB in the UK, is a nice piece of kit. It’s not cutting edge, but it does the job, its comfortable to read on for long periods, and with the inclusion go Google Play, you can be sneaky and install the Kindle app if you’re locked in to Bezos’ ecosystem. It is possible to use the Nook HD and Nook HD+ as purely Kindle readers, which does feel a touch subversive as a user, and I did wonder how sales from the Barnes and Noble store have performed since the opening

The Nook price drop comes to America

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Following the success of the price cut on the eInk Nook readers in the UK (here’s my piece on Forbes about the matter), the US is getting a similar price cut. It’s only on the higher priced Nook Simple Touch Glowlight, so the obvious reason is this is a stock clearing exercise ahead of a new unit going on sale – and that matches up with the historical times of Barnes and Noble’s hardware releases. But I suspect that the UK sales figures of both the Nook, and the resulting increased eBook sales, after the price drop of the two