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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Efforts by Barnes & Noble Inc to get its Nook electronic reader into customers' hands suffered another setback on Monday, when the bookseller said it was postponing the in-store debut of the device until early 2010 to fulfill orders already received. Barnes & Noble said just eight days ago that it would ship the newly launched Nook to its highest-volume stores on December 7 to allow customers to buy an e-reader and take it home. For now, only demonstration models are... Read Full Story
Barnes & Noble’s e-reader, “Nook,” has just been rooted by the NookDevs.com modding team. They announced that they discovered a DNS hack, and followed through by reverse-engineering the e-reader to see how it works. They eventually learned the Nook OS runs from the SD card, and Tweeted soon after: “We have root.”
This basically means that, eventually, the Nook will be able to do most everything an Android phone can do. Of course, its practicality is questionable — after all, the e-reader... Read Full Story
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The captivate of Android has brought hackers to the Barnes & Noble nook similar to piranhas to still-kicking meat, and it turns out there’s copiousness of amour inside the ebook reader. Over at nookDevs they’ve not usually stripped the device to the unclothed circuitboards, they’ve additionally managed to base it .
Points of note embody Android clearly being installed onto a 2GB inner microSD label – potentially a means of indolent OS opening – and a Samsung... Read Full Story
Barnes & Noble Inc. and Borders Group Inc., the nation's two largest brick-and-mortar book sellers, both posted quarterly losses Thursday and forecast a difficult holiday season, saying competition from discount chains and online retailers is stiffening. Barnes & Noble, the larger of the two, also cut its forecast for annual profit, and shares of both retailers fell. Even with online presence, traditional bookstores have had a rough time facing off against online sellers like Amazon.com as... Read Full Story
Barnes & Noble “Nook” e-Reader on Android OS has been rooted (jailbroken) by nookdevs after discovering a DNS hack, followed by physically opening of a nook device. The rooted nook can do everything a rooted Android phone can do, said a source from nookdevs. That means, rooted or jailbroken Nook might able to run apps in future. Developers can tweak the user interface, develop custom ROM’s , improve battery life & increase memory of nook, and several other unlocked features in rooted nook... Read Full Story
Barnes & Noble might be pitching the Nook to the literary set, but it turns out the Android-based dual-screen reader is pretty hacker-friendly as well: both the OS and filesystem are stored on a microSD card. That means the newly-formed crew at nookdevs has already managed to root what they describe as the “generic” Android 1.5 build that’s hidden under the Nook’s navigation UI, and they say the device can do “everything a rooted Android phone can do.” That’s certainly intriguing, especially... Read Full Story
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc <BKS.N> said on Sunday it would delay shipments of its newly launched Nook electronic reader to stores as the company strives to deliver preordered devices to consumers before the holidays. "We expect to have them in our highest-volume stores on December 7th and in a very limited number," Barnes & Noble spokeswoman Mary Ellen Keating told Reuters. The company had earlier hoped to have a limited number of e-readers in some of its stores around... Read Full Story
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc <BKS.N> cut its full-year forecast on expectations of a tough holiday season and high costs for its Nook electronic reader, while rival Borders Group Inc <BGP.N> posted a wider-than-expected loss. Shares of both booksellers fell sharply. Barnes and Borders are caught in a holiday book price war between Amazon.com Inc <AMZN.O> and Wal-Mart Stores Inc <WMT.N> as they try to compete with the move of book sales online. Shares of Barnes & Noble fell 6.5... Read Full Story
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc said on Friday it had sold out of its first allotment of newly launched Nook electronic readers due to high demand and new shipments will not arrive in time for the holidays. "While we increased production based on the high consumer interest, we've sold out of our initial Nook allotment available for delivery before the holidays," the bookseller said in a statement. Devices ordered from Friday will be shipped beginning the week of January 4, the... Read Full Story
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Spring Design, a maker of electronic readers, is suing Barnes & Noble Inc, claiming the bookseller's newly launched Nook reader illegally copied its dual-screen design after the two discussed a possible partnership. Spring Design said Barnes & Noble used its proprietary design to better compete with Amazon.com's market-leading Kindle, while failing to disclose its intentions to make its own device. In a lawsuit filed on Monday in U.S. District Court in San Jose... Read Full Story
