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Barnes & Noble's Nook eReader Launches Today: Here Are the Details

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Oct 20, 2009

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Barnes and Noble will launch its rumored Nook eBook reader later today at an event in New York City. Thanks to an early leak of the device on the B&N Web site, however, we already know most of the details about the Nook. We can now confirm, for example, the the Nook will retail for $259 and that it will feature two screens: a small LCD touchscreen at the bottom of the device and a standard eInk display above the smaller screen. One of the most interesting aspects about the device, besides the two screens and the 2 gigabytes of on-board memory, is that B&N will allow users to lend books to friends.

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Just yesterday, we wrote about the dual-screen Alex eReader, which looked like an interesting design study, but didn't strike us as a very usable device. In many ways, the Nook looks similar to the Kindle, but instead of a hardware keyboard, the B&N eReader features a touchscreen that can show a keyboard and will allow users to browse books . The Nook, on the other hand, mostly uses the small color screen for navigation and doesn't try to add a lot of addition

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