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Barnes & Noble stops selling NOOK Tablet 7″ while investigating hardware issue

Barnes & Noble’s NOOK Tablet 7″ is a $50 Android tablet which the bookstore chain began selling in late 2016. But the company has stopped selling the tablet for now, due to a potential hardware issue. First reported in a reddit thread, the company has also instructed stores to box up and return inventory. Despite […]

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Barnes & Noble will no longer sell apps through NOOK Store

Barnes & Noble may be first and foremost a book store. But the company does sell other goods in stores and on its website. And when B&N launched its first tablet in 2010, the company launched a NOOK app store to go along with its NOOK eBook store. But B&N started including the Google Play […]

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B&N remains committed to NOOK, even as eBook division revenue falls

Barnes & Noble’s NOOK division saw sales of $51.7 million the most recent quarter, which represents a decline of 33 percent… but the company is putting a positive spin on that by saying that while sales of devices and content were down, B&N also saw a “reduction of NOOK losses” during the fiscal third quarter.” In […]

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Now you can root the NOOK Glowlight Plus eReader

The Barnes & Noble NOOK Glowlight Plus is an eReader with a 1072 x pixel E Ink touchscreen display, an ambient light, and 4GB of storage. It’s basically B&N’s answer to the latest Amazon Kindle Paperwhite, except the NOOK Glowlight Plus has a classier design with bronze aluminum and white plastic… oh yeah, it’s also waterproof. […]

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B&N may sell a 9.6 inch Samsung Galaxy Tab E NOOK Edition tablet

Barnes & Noble may have a new tablet on the way… or rather, the company may be preparing to launch a new co-branded version of an existing Samsung tablet. It’s been a few years since B&N has designed its own tablets. In September the company started offering the Galaxy Tab S2 NOOK tablet for $400, offering customers a […]

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How to install Android 5.1 on a NOOK HD or NOOK HD+

The Barnes & Noble NOOK HD and HD+ were released in 2012, and the tablets offered high-resolution displays, dual-core processors, and microSD card slots, among other features. But they weren’t hugely successful for B&N, and the NOOK HD and HD+ were the last tablets the book store chain ever produced on its own. These days […]