Barnes & Noble will release a Nook Tablet on Monday that has twice the memory and storage of Amazon’s coming Kindle Fire, according to new reports on the Web. The new tablet will be offered at $ 249, currently the price of the Nook Color, which is expected to drop in price below $ 200.
The new tablet could point to the further evolution of e-readers into mini-tablets. The Nook Tablet can build on the success of the Nook Color, which is now second in shipments to Apple’s iPad 2.
Nov. 15 and 16
The Kindle Fire ships Nov. 15, and, according to the reports, the new Nook Tablet will ship the next day. The Nook Tablet will feature 1 GB of memory, compared with 512 MB for the Color and the Fire. It will also have 16 GB of storage, expandable to 32 GB, and will sport a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, faster than the dual-core in the Fire and the single-core in the Color. The Color and the Fire each have 8 GB of storage.
Several weeks ago, Amazon unveiled its Kindle Fire tablet, which will sell for $ 199. Aside from the price and hardware differences, the Fire takes advantage of Amazon’s cloud to speed up Web browsing, and is intended to be a playback device for Amazon’s huge store of content. According to news reports, Amazon is selling the Kindle as a loss leader, under the price of manufacture, in order to move more content.
Amazon has also been actively working to build on its content advantage. On Thursday, it announced the Kindle Owners Lending Library, with thousands of book titles — including more than 100 bestsellers — available at no additional charge to Kindle-owning subscribers of Amazon Prime, which costs $ 79 annually and includes other benefits. Recently, the company also announced an arrangement…
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