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Barnes & Noble Updates Nook App for iPhone, iPad and PC

by Caleb Johnson on August 17, 2010 at 06:16 PM

Barnes & Noble revamps, re-brands Nook apps.

Earlier this summer, Barnes & Noble slashed the price of its e-reader, and last month announced a Nook desktop app geared toward students. Now the big-box bookseller is re-branding and revamping the iPhone, iPad and PC versions of its Nook apps as part of the continuing e-reader war. According to Engadget, the formerly titled Barnes & Noble e-reader products now sport the 'Nook' brand name and logo. During the overhaul, the iPhone and iPad apps received the most new features -- including customizable themes, day and night reading settings, and loads of font and brightness options for the viewer's pleasure. As for unique features on each device, the Nook app for iPhone 4 now supports the Retina Display, and iPad users can rate titles within the app. The Nook app for PC was slightly neglected, with its biggest change being the ability to access the B&N eBookstore as well as shared content. Not that it matters too much, since most people will use Nook software on mobile devices, rather than PCs -- you know, since the Internet is dying, anyway. [From: Barnes & Noble, via: Engadget]

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