We already knew Barnes & Noble was looking to spin off their digital book/ereader device business from an announcement made earlier this year. What we didn’t see happening was Microsoft becoming a key player seeing as how they’ve been pretty litigious with Barnes & Noble over their use of Android and various cases of patent infringement. But that’s all water under the bridge now as Microsoft has announced a $300 million dollar investment in...

Amazon just unveiled some new Kindles. Bookworms rejoice! Now there’s a Kindle for everyone at $79, $99, $149, and $199 price points. Hop past the break for the rundown… Kindle Looking for a great e-reader and not necessarily wanting/needing a ton of extra bells and whistles? This re-designed, smaller Kindle is for you. According to Amazon, this Kindle is under 6oz and 18% smaller than the Kindle 3. But the real reason you’d want to shack up with...

The new Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader isn’t quite the beast of a device that many thought it would be. Instead, B&N took the sensible route in releasing a smaller, cheaper, and much more efficient device. Specs include: 6-inch Pearl display, 7.5oz weight, 800MHz TI OMAP 3 processor, 2 GB of internal storage, and Android 2.1. But the really impressive feature — 2-month battery life. The Nook Touch makes use of a new proprietary flashing technology...

The above snapshot of an SEC filing made by major American book retailer, Barnes & Noble, is pretty much void of any detail except for the mere fact that “it” is coming. What “it” is, however, is unknown outside of the fact that it is an ereader and being announced on May 24th. Considering the current Nook Color ships with Android 2.2 and the proposed release of this new ereader will be later in the 2H of the year, we’d certainly hope...

Today, Barnes and Noble officially released the “NOOK Kids” iPad app, targeting reading in young children. The app comes with a complimentary copy of both “Richard Scarry’s Colors” and “Elephant’s Child” as well as a robust set of parental controls for protecting youngsters’ eyes from not so age appropriate reading material. Overall, there are over 230 interactive books at your disposal with some supporting text-to-speech as...