Barnes & Noble has liberated its Android ereader app, auspicious coordination with existing ebook download libraries and the knowledge to admittance the retailers more than one meg titles candid from your Android smartphone.  NOOK for Android is a liberated download for Android 1.6 phones or above, and supports different fonts and type sizes, semblance and genre class reading, numerous tender transformation animations and the broadly-used ePub ebook format.

If you’re already using a area standalone ereader, or B&N’s applications for PC, Mac or iPad, you crapper sync over your datum position to the newborn Android app; if you’ve feature aweigh on one, it’ll automatically scramble you to the aforementioned locate on the added platforms.  It’s acquirable today in the Android Market or at www.bn.com/nookforandroid

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Press Release:

Barnes & Noble Introduces NOOK™ for Android™ – An Easy-to-Use Free eReader Application for Android Devices

Announcement businessman Shift to Consistent NOOK Branding Across Barnes & Noble eReading Offering

New App Gives Android Users Access to the Barnes & Noble eBookstore with solon than One Million Digital Titles and Personal B&N Digital Library

Only Android eReader Application to Offer eBook Lending

New York, New royalty – July 22, 2010 – Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s maximal bookseller, today introduced NOOK for Android, a recreation and easy-to-use Barnes & Noble eReading undergo for those with Android-based smartphones and devices. The newborn covering is the stylish constituent to Barnes & Noble’s listing of free, favourite eReader code and the exclusive Android eReader covering substance the knowledge to deal eBooks with friends.

The newborn Android app is also the prototypal eReader code to feature Barnes & Noble’s newborn NOOK-centric branding, investment the capableness of the company’s NOOK difference crossways its whole eReading offering. NOOK for Android module presently be followed by an updated NOOK for iPhone®, NOOK for iPad™, and others in the reaching months. The newborn eReader code branding aligns with the company’s underway NOOK substance – NOOK 3G and NOOK Wi-Fi® eBook Readers, and the fresh declared NOOKstudy™ online think papers and code resolution for higher education.

NOOK for Android offers those with devices using Android OS 1.6 and higher the knowledge to class Barnes & Noble’s cavernous eBookstore of more than one meg eBooks, including newborn releases, bestsellers and liberated classics, and download titles in seconds. Any customer’s individualized Barnes & Noble eBook accumulation – purchased on a NOOK eBook Reader, online at BN.com or on added BN eReader-enabled figure – module easily sync to their figure in seconds so their accumulation goes wherever they go.

NOOK for Android offers a recreation and immersive eReading undergo with the knowledge to make book with some type styles and sizes, an easy-to-use guidance bar, datum in genre and semblance modes, and illustration tender turns. It is also the prototypal Android eReader covering to substance digital lending. Using Barnes & Noble’s unequalled LendMe™ technology, customers crapper easily deal suitable eBooks for up to 14 life with friends, who crapper savor these digital titles on a NOOK eBook Reader, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch® and PC enabled with liberated BN eReader software.

“NOOK for Android is customizable, recreation and cushy to ingest and we’re agog to hit the most-requested edition of our liberated eReading code to the ontogeny difference of ambulatory customers using Android-based devices,” said politico Gottlieb, Vice President, Digital Products for Barnes & Noble.com. “Android customers crapper savor the enthusiastic NOOK eReading undergo on their ambulatory device, including admittance to our vast digital class and their individualized B&N digital accumulation at their digit tips. And, of course, Android users crapper today savor Barnes & Noble’s unequalled eBook disposition feature to deal their selection eBooks with friends.”

Added Gottlieb, “With NOOK for Android, and the added renamed code to follow, customers crapper also easily discern and hit certainty in Barnes & Noble’s NOOK difference to wage them with a recreation and easy-to-use eReading undergo on some figure of their choosing.”

Key features acquirable in NOOK for Android include:

· Shop Barnes & Noble’s vast eBookstore: Search, explore and feeding finished more than one meg digital titles at www.bn.com/ebooks direct by impinging Shop Books from the Library. There are more than a half-million liberated eBooks acquirable and liberated samples are offered for every eBooks. Learn more most titles from thousands of article and client reviews. Pick a underway bestseller, a artist or anything in between and download it wirelessly in seconds.
· Access your individualized B&N digital library: All eBooks purchased finished the Barnes & Noble eBookstore sync in seconds and are primed to feature in your Library.
· Lend to friends: NOOK for Android is the exclusive Android eReading app that offers eBook distribution with friends.
· Read your way: Customize the eReading undergo by choosing from octad type types and fivesome sizes, feature in genre or semblance modes and hair the concealment orientation.
· Enjoy the read: The recreation and immersive undergo offers enlivened or sliding tender turns, a guidance holograph bar, bookmarks and more.
· Easy admittance to your content: Using the Library List view, wager the counterbalance art, difference and separate your eBooks by author, denomination or past reads. Access flush creation info for the designated eBook, including the precis and more books from that author.
· Read crossways binary devices: Android users crapper today hands their eReading experiences with Barnes & Noble’s added eReader experiences much as NOOK eBook Readers, previously declared eBook readers supercharged by the Barnes & Noble eBookstore, and a difference of added profession and ambulatory devices, including iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry® and HTC HD2™ smartphones, HP computers, PC and Mac®.
· Pick up where you mitt off: Sync the terminal tender feature of the terminal eBook unsealed on an Android figure with BN eReader (soon to be renamed NOOK) software-enabled devices including PC and iPad. Coming soon, both module sync with NOOK for iPhone and more devices to follow.
· Follows the standard: Read eBooks formatted in ePub, apace decent the business standard.

Those language up for a newborn BN.com statement when downloading the newborn application, module also encounter threesome Barnes & Noble Classics Series eBooks – Dracula, Little Women and Pride & Prejudice – in their libraries, along with samples of digit underway bestselling eBooks.

NOOK for Android is today acquirable at www.bn.com/nookforandroid. Barnes & Noble continually enhances its eReader code and module add newborn features to its Android substance this season including highlights and notes, a see accumulation and look-up feature, accumulation grid-view and more. For more aggregation on liberated BN eReader (soon to be renamed NOOK) code and apps, gratify meet www.bn.com/ebooks/download-reader.asp.

The Barnes & Noble Digital Library Advantage
Barnes & Noble’s Lifetime Library™ helps secure that Barnes & Noble customers module ever be healthy to admittance their digital libraries on a difference of devices as substantially as on BN.com. In addition, Barnes & Noble’s ingest of ePub info and Adobe profession allows customers to feature every of their digital noesis crossways a ontogeny aggregation of devices.

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