{"id":190668,"date":"2025-10-10T14:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190668\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T14:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:48:13","slug":"hey-remember-the-barnes-noble-nook-they-still-sell-it-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190668\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Remember the Barnes &#038; Noble Nook? They Still Sell It, You Know."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when Amazon was the scrappy, upstart bookseller going toe to toe against the mammoth Barnes &amp; Noble? No? Well, that\u2019s ok. It definitely happened, though. <\/p>\n<p>I lived through it, and there was a weird sort of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/schadenfreude\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">schadenfreude<\/a> floating around fans of the independent booksellers that Barnes &amp; Noble had put out of business throughout the \u201990s and 2000s when Amazon began to blot out the sun and put the squeeze on B&amp;N.<\/p>\n<p>It happened first with physical books made out of real, dead, flattened trees, and then, when both companies made a huge push into e-reader devices, it happened again. Nowadays, Amazon dominates the e-reader market, but a blast from the past is still quietly being sold today.<\/p>\n<p>still here<\/p>\n<p>A while back in the 2010s, it looked as if the Amazon Kindle and Barnes &amp; Noble\u2019s Nook were neck-and-neck in a race to dominate the e-reader market. Barnes &amp; Noble was so all-in on the Nook that I felt its stores were transformed into displays for the Nook, with everything else\u2014magazines, books, and all\u2014just an afterthought.<\/p>\n<p>The Kindle most comparable to the Nook GlowLight 4 Plus is the Kindle Paperwhite. Both have screens about 7\u2033 and use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/what-is-e-ink\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">E Ink technology<\/a> to make the words on the display look as close to real paper as a slab of pixels can look, which in turn is easier on the eyes during long reading sessions.<\/p>\n<p>The Kindle Paperwhite\u2019s screen is sharper, with better contrast, and it\u2019s also compatible with Amazon\u2019s Kindle Books, a massive platform for e-books. At least the Nook doesn\u2019t make you pay extra to not be pestered with on-screen advertisements. Thanks for that, Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Those who like physical buttons also have a buddy in the Nook. The Kindle\u2019s entirely on-screen controls turn off people who, although they may be reading on a screen, feel the complete absence of tactile controls is a step too far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remember when Amazon was the scrappy, upstart bookseller going toe to toe against the mammoth Barnes &amp; Noble?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,83631,47620,227,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-190668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ereaders","11":"tag-kindle","12":"tag-tech","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}