Barnes & Noble NOOK Color and NOOK Tablet owners have been able to purchase and download comic books, graphic novels and manga books on their Android-powered eReaders. Now anyone with a phone or tablet running Android 2.2 or later can do the same thing using the latest NOOK app for Android. NOOK 3.1 allows you to purchase and download comics from the NOOK Store, although… Read more »

Barnes & Noble has updated its NOOK app for Android phones and tablets, giving virtually any Android tablet much of the same functionality you’d expect if you purchased a NOOK Color device. NOOK 2.6.1 for Android can run on any device with Android 2.1 and up, but you get a few special features if you install the app on an Android tablet with a high… Read more »

One of the coolest new features in the Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor is support for picture books and interactive content for children’s books — the kind of thing that’s hard to do on a typical E Ink eBook reader with a slow screen refresh rate. Now it looks like Barnes & Noble is making those features available to iPad users as well, with a new… Read more »

Barnes & Noble is planning to launch an updated version of its NOOK eBook app for Android later this week, and it will finally bring some pretty basic features that may help the app compete with similar eBook readers from Amazon, Kobo, and others. Among the updated features are: “Go to” a page number Search within a book View highlights and notes Delete books from… Read more »

Barnes & Noble has offered an eBook reader for iOS touch for a while. But the company’s eBook strategy was starting to look a bit schizophrenic, with a Nook device available online and in-stores, Nook software for Google Android, but Barnes & Noble eReader-branded software for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Today Barnes & Noble is launching a fresh start, with the introduction of… Read more »

One of the new features in Google Android 2.2 Froyo is the ability to store applications on an SD card, freeing up space on your phone’s main memory. Developers need to enable this feature in their apps, so not every app available can be stored on an SD card, but I’ve already freed up plenty of storage space on my Nexus One by moving a… Read more »

The good news is that Android users now have a choice of buying and reading eBooks with apps from Amazon, Borders, Kobo, or Barnes & Noble (not to mention free eBook apps such as Aldiko). That’s because Barnes & Noble is the latest major US booksellers to launch an Android app, with today’s introduction of Nook for Android. The bad news is that the developers… Read more »