Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, in collaboration with TigerDirect and CompUSA, leading multi-channel retailers of computers and electronics (wholly owned subsidiaries of Systemax Inc), announced today they will be bringing the company’s award-winning line of NOOK eReading devices and related accessories to retail stores nationwide including TigerDirect and CompUSA, and online at TigerDirect.com and CompUSA.com, beginning in December. Customers will now have access to a wide array of popular and innovative NOOK devices designed for readers of all ages.
NOOK devices are the perfect choice for anyone who wants access to their favorite reads anywhere they go. Customers seeking a simple, easy-to-use, dedicated reading experience will love the NOOK Simple Touch Reader, an ultra-light, portable 6-inch eReader with the most-advanced E Ink® Pearl display and the longest battery life of any eReader. With a simple tap, it’s intuitive and easy to navigate, shop and read.
For customers who love to read everything in rich color, the NOOK Color features a stunning 7-inch VividView™ Color Touchscreen ideal for reading a wide variety of content including books, enhanced books, immersive children’s picture books, an expansive collection of interactive magazines, newspapers and more. NOOK Color also offers the most-requested tablet features, including high-quality NOOK Apps™, built-in email, and an enhanced Web experience. With all NOOK products, customers gain access to shop Barnes & Noble's expansive NOOK Bookstore™ of more than two million digital titles, and the ability to enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices.
“Barnes & Noble is happy to offer our best-selling and award-winning line of NOOK eReading devices through TigerDirect and CompUSA,” said Chris Peifer, Vice President, Digital Business Development at Barnes & Noble. “With NOOK, customers will discover the most immersive, fun and easy-to-use reading experience, as well as gain access to a vast selection of popular books, interactive magazines, newspapers, children’s books, apps and more.”
For more information, visit www.bn.com/nook or visit any NOOK Boutique or display in one of Barnes & Noble’s more than 700 bookstores (http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com).
About NOOK™ from Barnes & Noble
Barnes
& Noble's NOOK brand of eReading products makes it easy to read what you
love, anywhere you like™ with a fun, easy-to-use and immersive digital
reading experience. With NOOK, customers gain access to Barnes & Noble's
expansive NOOK Bookstore™ of more than two million digital
titles, and the ability to enjoy content across a wide array of popular
devices. The award-winning NOOK Color™ Reader’s Tablet™,
the best-value on the tablet market ($249), features a stunning 7-inch
VividView™ Color Touchscreen to read all of the content you
love, shop popular apps, connect via email, browse the Web and more. The
NOOK Simple Touch Reader™ ($139), is the easiest-to-use
6-inch touch reader, with the longest battery life of any eReader. In
Barnes & Noble stores, NOOK owners can access free Wi-Fi connectivity,
enjoy the Read In Store™ feature to read NOOK Books™
for free, and the More In Store™ program, which offers free,
exclusive content and special promotions. Barnes & Noble was the first
company to offer digital lending for a wide selection of books through
its LendMe® technology, available through NOOK eReading
products. Find NOOK devices in Barnes & Noble stores and online at www.BN.com,
as well as at Best Buy, Walmart, Staples, Books-A-Million, OfficeMax,
Fred Meyer, and P.C. Richard & Son stores.
In addition to NOOK devices, Barnes & Noble makes it easy for customers to enjoy any book, anytime, anywhere with its free line of NOOK software, available at www.bn.com/freenookapps. Customers can use Barnes & Noble's free eReading software to access and read books from their personal Barnes & Noble digital library on devices including iPad™, iPhone®, iPod touch®, Android™ smartphones and tablets BlackBerry®, PC and Mac®. Lifetime Library™ helps ensure that Barnes & Noble customers will always be able to access their digital libraries on NOOK products and software-enabled devices and BN.com. Barnes & Noble also offers NOOK Study™ (www.nookstudy.com), an innovative study platform and software solution for higher education, NOOK Kids™ (www.nookkids.com), a collection of digital picture and chapter books for children, and NOOK Books en español™ (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ebooksenespanol), the first-ever Spanish language digital bookstore in the United States.
For more information on NOOK devices and eReading software, updates, new NOOK Book releases, Free Friday™ NOOK Books and more, follow us on www.twitter.com/ebooksbn and www.facebook.com/nookbn.
About Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Barnes & Noble, Inc.
(NYSE:BKS), the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company,
operates 704 bookstores in 50 states. Barnes & Noble College
Booksellers, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, also
operates 635 college bookstores serving over 4.6 million students and
faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States.
Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through BN.com (www.bn.com),
one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites, which also features more than
two million titles in its NOOK Bookstore™ (www.bn.com/ebooks).
Through Barnes & Noble’s NOOK™ eReading product offering, customers can
buy and read digital books and content on the widest range of platforms,
including NOOK devices, partner company products, and the most popular
mobile and computing devices using free NOOK software.
General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company's corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com.
NOOK Simple Touch Reader™, NOOK 1st Edition™, NOOK 1st Edition Wi-Fi™, NOOK Color™, Reader’s Tablet™, Fast Page™, NOOK Books™, NOOK Bookstore™, NOOK Newsstand™, NOOK Magazines™, NOOK Newspapers™, NOOK Apps™,PubIt!™, NOOK Kids™, Read In Store™,More In Store™, NOOK Friends™, LendMe®, NOOK Library™, NOOK Boutiques™, The Barnes & Noble Promise™, NOOK Books en español™, NOOK Study™, Free Friday™, Lifetime Library™ and Read What You Love. Anywhere You Like™ are trademarks of Barnes & Noble, Inc. Other trademarks referenced in this release are the property of their respective owners.
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About TigerDirect Inc.
TigerDirect Inc. (http://www.tigerdirect.com) serves the needs of both personal and business computer users, selling consumer electronics, computers, digital media technology and peripherals via catalog, business to business, retail stores and Internet channels. TigerDirect is a subsidiary of Systemax Inc.
About CompUSA
The CompUSA companies (http://www.compusa.com) serve the needs of both personal and business computer users, selling consumer electronics, computers, digital media technology and peripherals via retail stores, business-to-business and Internet channels. The CompUSA companies are subsidiaries of Systemax Inc.