As a Barnes & Noble bookseller, I can tell you all about the new devices, the comparisons between each other, and comparisons with other tablets in the market. As a struggling graduate student who loves pretty shiny things, I can also tell you how entranced I was by the ads and commercials and everything these devices will offer.
So I’m pumped and ready to give you links to all sorts of information about the HD and HD+!
- New York Times — “The new devices are a seven-inch tablet for $199, called the Nook HD, and a nine-inch tablet for $269, the Nook HD Plus. Company executives promoted them as being lighter and faster than comparable tablets, a market that is crowded with competitors from Apple, Amazon and Google.” There are four devices. Nook HD 8GB, Nook HD 16GB (both available in Snow and Storm), Nook HD+ 16GB, and Nook HD+ 32GB (both available in Slate). Something to note.
- Shelf Awareness Pro — Information on the new tablets, the new Nook Video (“This fall, B&N is launching Nook Video, which will stream movies and TV shows from a range of studios, including Sony, Warner Bros., Disney, HBO, Viacom and Starz. The material can be watched on Nooks, TVs, tablets, smartphones as well as on a video app that will be released in the near future.”), and expansion in the UK.
- Publishers Weekly — “B&N’s head of hardware development Bill Sapperstein showed off the Nook HD and what he described as the “highest resolution display on a 7-inch tablet,” with 243 pixels per inch and pointed to wide viewing angles on both tablets. Both devices run on a customized version of Ice Cream Sandwich, the Android 4.0 OS optimized for tablets. The devices also just seem to get lighter—the Nook HD is 315 grams and Nook HD+ 515 grams—and more powerful with the NHD offering a 1.3GHZ processor and the NHD+ offering a 1.5 GHZ processor.”
- Barnes & Noble — As you can see, the Nook Color, Nook Tablet 8GB and Nook Tablet 16GB have sort of…disappeared.
I feel like a kid in a candy shop. I’m already in love with the device and I haven’t even held one yet!
Scribbles & Wanderlust 
5 thoughts on “Barnes & Noble Nook HD and Nook HD+”
reading7mandy
I work at Barnes and Noble too and just found out today there are new Nooks. At least this time we are getting some warning. I hate when they just send us a new device and then we have a bunch of angry customers who just purchased a nook and now they want to upgrade to the new one. I am pretty excited to get these though. I’ve been contemplating purchasing our tablet (I currently have the simple touch) now i’ll wait and see what these are like. Hopefully they do the same thing as last year and give employees 40% off (or was it 45%?). They should have put a camera on it though since the new Kindle HD has one. I have a feeling we are going to be hearing a lot of customers complain about it not having a camera.
Laura
Even if customers complain about the lack of a camera, that’s just one miniscule thing in comparison to everything else this device can do. Pretty nasty/entitled First World Problem to complain about, in my opinion. Overall, you get better, faster, more stuff for half the price of what the other devices can do.
I bet B&N will require that the employees take the devices home for a trial run, like the lending program we have for books. That way we can learn the device ahead of time before we start selling it! At least, I hope so.
B&N is first and foremost a bookstore. The fact we even have a successful digital device is remarkable alone.
prettybooks
We’re still waiting for Nooks to arrive in the UK!
Laura
Really? Oh wow! Maybe they’ll arrive in November when we have the new ones to display.
prettybooks
It was meant to be this month but haven’t heard anything else. Let’s hope you’re right!