Simply whenever you thought Barnes & Noble had given up on the e-reader market, the corporate has introduced a refreshed Nook GlowLight.
The Nook GlowLight 4 is the corporate’s first e-reader announcement since 2017 when it launched the earlier iteration of the machine.
The Nook GlowLight 4 contains a 6-inch, 300 dots-per-inch show that’s immune to scratches and fingerprints. Importantly, it’s additionally highly effective sufficient to learn e-books in vivid daylight, with the GlowLight expertise guaranteeing an evenly dispersed mild throughout the display for simple viewing.
The brand new machine comes with quite a few enhancements over the GlowLight 3, together with a sleeker design making it the lightest Nook e-reader to this point, and, at 32GB, 4 instances extra storage — sufficient for “hundreds” of books, Barnes & Noble says. Your entire studying materials may also be saved within the Nook cloud without charge.
The Nook GlowLight 4 consists of bodily page-turning buttons and an evening mode that may be activated manually or configured to function robotically. It’s additionally the primary Nook e-reader to include a USB charger.
An assortment of instances for the Nook GlowLight 4 are additionally accessible for $20, with further equipment arriving early subsequent yr.
The Nook GlowLight 4 can be accessible to order from December 8 for $150. That’s across the similar value as Amazon’s extremely regarded Paperwhite e-reader, although the Nook gives significantly extra storage than Amazon’s machine.
Although the launch of a brand new Barnes & Noble e-reader has come as one thing of a shock, the corporate demonstrated earlier this yr that it was nonetheless all for {hardware} when it unveiled the price range Nook pill earlier this yr.
The truth is, in a press release launched this week, Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt appeared to substantiate that extra gadgets are on the way in which when he mentioned the corporate is now “investing considerably in our Nook line of merchandise.”
Daunt added: “The GlowLight 4 is the second Nook machine to launch this yr as we set about to deliver a brand new household of gadgets to our clients and to reinvigorate Nook within the coming months and years.”
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