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The Nook Color is a tablet computer/e-reader that was marketed by Barnes & Noble. A 7-inch (18 cm) tablet with multitouch touchscreen input, [2] it is the first device in the Nook line to feature a full-color screen. The device is designed for viewing of books, newspapers, magazines, and children's picture books.
The original Nook was followed in November 2010 by a color LCD device called the Nook Color, in June 2011 by the Nook Simple Touch, [4] and in November 2011 and February 2012 by the Nook Tablet. [5] [6] On April 30, 2012, Barnes & Noble entered into a partnership with Microsoft that spun off the Nook and college businesses into a subsidiary. [7]
PC Magazine noted the color touchscreen, Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity, and large ebook library as advantages over the Nook's competitors, with a lack of support for HTML and Microsoft's .doc file format seen as negatives. [22] Money compared the Nook favorably to the Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader Touch Edition. [23]
Barnes & Noble (BKS) didn't unveil their new Nook color reader with the kind of fanfare that Apple (AAPL) cultivated for the introduction of the iPad back in January. But then again, the largest ...
The .ibooks format is created with the free iBooks Author e-book layout software from Apple Inc. This proprietary format is based on the EPUB standard, with some differences in the CSS tags used in an ibooks format file, this making it incompatible with the EPUB specification. The End-User Licensing Agreement (EULA) included with iBooks Author ...
The Nook HD and Nook HD+ are the third generation of Nook's line of color tablet e-reader/media players by Barnes & Noble for using their copy restricted (DRM) [5] proprietary files, [6] or other files. They are the successors to the Nook Tablet and both were released on November 8, 2012.
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Below is a list of currently available tablet PCs grouped by their width, depth, height, screen size, and appropriate tablet case sizes. The most popular presently available tablet computers are compared in the following table: