Barnes and Noble Announces The ‘Nook’

The big tech news the last few days, has been surrounding the release of Barnes and Noble’s new ‘Nook’ E-Reader. Other than a somewhat unfortunate name (“nookie” reader, anyone?) the device looks pretty promising. In fact, I would really like one just in case anyone out there was feeling generous. Email me!

There are a few big differences between the Nook and other E-Readers such as the Kindle or Sony E-Reader. With the nook, you have the possibility to “lend” out books to friends. This can only be done once per book, and you can only lend a book out to one person at a time, but it might still prove to be a big enough impetus to spur sales.

In addition, however, the Nook offers two different screens in their device. The top screen is your average “electronic ink” reading screen, but the bottom screen features an LCD display which allows readers to flip through available titles as well as find newspaper and magazine content to display above. With such content being offered on this tablet-like a device, and google android capability being incorporated into the model, it seems like only a matter of time before this or a similar device may start displaying video.