...many third-party apps, Barnes and Noble’s Nook app for iOS devices was also updated and enhanced for the new iPad’s Retina display. This means... Read More

Posted by Joe Rossignol on Monday, April 2, 2012 at 11:49 am.   NOOK for iPad has been updated with support for the new iPad’s crystal clear Retina display. The update also include a new highlighting feature and a number of bug fixes. The new version of Nook, version 3.1.3, is now available in the App Store. As more popular apps receive the Retina display treatment, iFans will be posting about the updates accordingly. For your convenience, we have all of our “Retina ready” app coverage available on one tidy page. And don’t forget to check out our updates section. Read More

The iPad is great for reading not only eBooks but digital magazines too, and the list of available titles is growing all the time.  In addition to our own personal favorite, Project, and Zinio, where digitized editions of popular newsstand magazines can be purchased; here are ten recently released iPad magazine apps which show just how much this genre is diversifying on Apple’s tablet. Guys can now know what girls want thanks to the release of Cosmo for Guys, an iPad magazine filled with advice, tips and guides to help you become ‘a trusted authority on women’.  Sounds hideous, but it’s there if you want it.  The app is free, but you’ll have to pay a $1.99 monthly or $19.99 yearly subscription to actually read the magazine.  Free. Previously only for reading books purchased through Barnes and Noble, the latest version of the NOOK reader has added magazines and newspapers, with Read More

Amazon and Barnes & Noble both introduced new features to their respective iOS applications on Monday, even as they were required to remove links in their apps to outside storefronts. Kindle now supports viewing of over 100 of its newspaper and magazine titles, and Barnes & Noble has announced that Nook for iPad will soon offer access to over 175 digital periodicals. Because of the timing of this feature introduction, I’d say it was possibly a negotiated concession by the e-booksellers, won in exchange for the removal of the outside store links. I’ve been able to try out Amazon’s implementation of magazine and newspaper viewing, which went live yesterday. It does add a nice splash of color to otherwise text-heavy content, but if you’re looking for interactivity, you should probably look elsewhere. The periodicals offer more in terms of user interface advantages on the iPad then they do on the Kindle, Read More

It’s travel season. Maybe you’ve got a cross-atlantic flight planned, a long drive ahead and need to keep the kids occupied, your secluded getaway has a TV made during the Kennedy administration, or you just have a long train ride to work every day. I’m going to show you different ways you can get all sorts of entertainment on your iPad. iTunes. The easiest way to get video content onto your iPad is to simply buy or rent it from the iTunes Store. You can initiate the transaction on either your computer or your iPad. Keep in mind if you copy a rental to your iPad, it won’t be available for watch on your computer, and if you rent a video on your iPad, it can’t be copied to the Mac. This FAQ from Apple has more information on rentals. To copy videos to your iPad, select your iPad in the sidebar Read More

It’s travel season. Maybe you’ve got a cross-atlantic flight planned, a long drive ahead and need to keep the kids occupied, your secluded getaway has a TV made during the Kennedy administration, or you just have a long train ride to work every day. I’m going to show you different ways you can get all sorts of entertainment on your iPad. iTunes. The easiest way to get video content onto your iPad is to simply buy or rent it from the iTunes Store. You can initiate the transaction on either your computer or your iPad. Keep in mind if you copy a rental to your iPad, it won’t be available for watch on your computer, and if you rent a video on your iPad, it can’t be copied to the Mac. This FAQ from Apple has more information on rentals. To copy videos to your iPad, select your iPad in the sidebar Read More

  Did you know that it’s possible to read on your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch? Crazy, right? Like anyone reads anymore. Seriously, though, reading is one of our favorite pastimes. We usually enjoy using the Kindle, because it’s lightweight and very easy to use. The eInk screen is pleasant to look at. No complaints from us. Thing is, there are also plenty of iPads out there. Why not give people something to read? Know that we didn’t give iBooks its own spot on the list as that’s pretty much a giveaway. We’re looking at some of the places to get books for those who enjoy reading on the iPad. Hit the jump to take a look.   Amazon has the most popular eReader, and that means they offer the most books. Thing is, we are looking for the free stuff. Just hit up Amazon’s Kindle store and ask it to Read More

Das US-Buchhandelsunternehmen ‘Borders‘ vermeldet Zahlungsunfähigkeit – nicht nur umgangssprachlich auch als ‘Bankrott’ bezeichnet. Das Fortune-500-Unternehmen ist nach Barnes & Noble die zweitgrößte Handelskette für Bücher in Nordamerika. Bloomberg News berichtet, das 200 der insgesamt 642 Filialen im Zuge der ‘Reorganisation’ “augenblicklich geschlossen werden” – 75 weitere Geschäfte könnten folgen. “Frische Kredite über 505 Millionen Dollar” sollen jetzt helfen. Neben dem Preiskampf mit Online-Versandhändlern wie Amazon (in den USA gibt es keine Buchpreisbindung) verzeichnete man durch geschwächte CD- und DVD-Verkäufe erhebliche Verluste (und kompensierende Digital-Verkäufe). Ende der 90er-Jahre, Anfang 2000, räumte man den silbernen Scheiben viel Verkaufsfläche ein. Des Weiteren hat man es bislang nicht geschafft, den Fuß in die digitale Vertriebstür zu bekommen. Darunter leidet auch Mitbewerber Barnes & Noble. Mit dem elektronischen Lesegerät Nook und Nook Color wollte man zweimal angreifen. Obwohl die letzte (Hardware-)Produktvorstellung erst im Herbst 2010 erfolgte, kann man mit relativ großer Sicherheit inzwischen dessen Scheitern attestieren. Read More

Posted 02/01/2011 at 6:14am | by J.R. Bookwalter It seems like every move that Apple makes results in a firestorm of speculation -- an unfortunate side effect of being a company veiled in secrecy. Cupertino’s latest move is the rejection of a Sony Reader app, which has everyone sounding the death knell for other e-reader apps on iOS. The New York Times is reporting that Apple has rejected an official Sony Reader app, apparently because the app allows users to circumvent the App Store and purchase e-books directly from Sony’s own ecosystem. Unfortunately for those reporting this as news, Apple has had this policy in place pretty much from the beginning, which is why Amazon’s Kindle app, for instance, takes you to Mobile Safari to shop for e-books in the first place. What the reports are mostly focusing on is the last bit of this second paragraph from The Times report: Read More

Did you see those Barnes & Noble ads over the holidays where they were showing off those nice interactive color children's books that run on the company's US$249 NOOKcolor e-book reader? Well, if the kids were drooling at the NOOKcolor, now they can start hounding you for their own iPad. Barnes & Noble has released a new free NOOK Kids for iPad app that is specifically designed to play over 230 interactive picture books. More than 50 of the books have professional narrations, including the Thomas and Friends, Richard Scarry and Olivia series. Parents can decide what books are appropriate for kids of different ages by using the "Parent's Corner" to set limits. To sweeten the pot, Barnes & Noble is offering two free interactive books -- Richard Scarry's Colors and Kipling's The Elephant's Child -- when you sign up for the NOOK service and place a credit card number on Read More

All you bookworms are going to get some digital love, as the Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader software is now ready to go for the Apple iPhone, iPod and iPad. This app enters an increasingly-crowded market for digital book buying. This is an update to a previous app and it has been re-branded under the “Nook” label. This is not a surprise at all because Barnes & Noble knows that its future will mainly be in digital distribution. If you ever go into one of its retail stores, you’re immediately assaulted with people trying to push the Nook e-reader on you. The 2.2 version of the Nook app adds full Apple iPad support and you can see from the screen shot above that this includes a better use of the real estate. You’ll also be able to tailor the way the content looks and this includes adjustable font sizes, colors and Read More

Update: Barnes & Noble's PR team pinged us to point out two salient points. #1, the message above does in fact note that only the iPod touch and iPhone versions of the newspaper/magazine subscriptions are temporarily offline -- the iPad subs are still available, as I found. #2, via the "Go To" button at the top of the eReader app screen, you can access an abbreviated table of contents (a list of the paper's sections); that's a help, but still not a particularly well-adapted navigational approach for all the stories in the NYT. My apologies for the errors. We got the heads-up from reader Jehuda S. that Barnes & Noble is now listing the New York Times as available for subscription or single-copy download into the company's B&N eReader app. A quick check of B&N's site does indeed show the paper available for $0.99 a day, or $19.99 for a monthly Read More

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Now that all the commercial e-book distributors have made their iPad apps available, it’s time for an overview of how each app performs, along with their pluses and minuses. One of my primary goals with the iPad was reducing the amount of paper clutter in my house. As a voracious reader, my home library was quickly approaching the need for a Dewey decimal system. While Andy Ihnatko is known for living a year of digital media last year, for a while now I’ve been trying to reach that goal myself. The good news is, the iPad makes it very easy to purchase and consume digital media. I’ve had no eye strain issues with the iPad, having read over 10 books on it since its launch. Neither have I found the weight of the device to be a big issue — however I usually keep it propped on something. Reading outdoors is Read More

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Further legitimizing the iPad as a book reader, Barnes & Noble introduced its reader app [App Store, Free] for the iPad today. While not as flashy as Apple’s iBooks, the BN eReader appears to be a step ahead of the Kindle app and offers features not available on either competing apps. The Barnes & Noble app offers the ability to loan out your eBooks to a friend for up to two weeks, and lets you see the books as they were intended, using the publishers formatting suggestion. It also allows you to save formatting themes. The expected features are included as well, such as highlighting, adding notes, and bookmarks (tap the bottom right corner to dog-ear the page). BN eReader also supports syncing between other devices such as the Nook or BN eReader for iPhone. The new eReader has a few downsides, however. When you launch the app, it requires you Read More

Barnes & Noble released its eReader for iPad (free) this week. This latest incarnation adds some features that the iPhone version lacks, like text highlighting and room for annotations (something I wish Apple's iBooks app did). But more than that, eReader for iPad is about sharing. A unique feature called "LendMe" lets customers "lend" books to anyone with the app across platforms (iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Mac) or a Nook. You can grab their address from within the app itself. The app comes with ten free samples of current best sellers, three free classics and a dictionary. Much was made of the iPad's potential as an eReader before its release, as comparisons to the Kindle and Nook were inevitable. Now that some months have passed, users have had time to explore the idea and compare applications for their look, feel and usability. What's your experience been? [Via Electronista] Read More