Barnes & Noble’s Nook Offers Color Screen for Browsing

October 22nd, 2009

The rumored Barnes & Noble e-book reader is now reality. The bookseller on Tuesday announced its entry into an increasingly crowded market dominated by Amazon’s Kindle.

Dubbed nook, the Barnes & Noble e-book reader runs on the Android mobile operating system. It’s the first in the industry to offer a color touchscreen for navigation with access to a digital store that offers more than one million e-books, newspapers and magazines.

At no extra cost, nook users can tap into AT&T’s 3G wireless mobile broadband network or use Wi-Fi for book browsing. Barnes & Noble is also letting friends share e-books with Lend Me technology available on a selection of e-books.

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