{"id":581099,"date":"2010-05-27T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T04:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=159802"},"modified":"2010-05-27T00:01:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T04:01:21","slug":"bn-launches-a-nook-ipad-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/581099","title":{"rendered":"B&amp;N launches a Nook iPad app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/05\/27\/bn-launches-a-nook-ipad-app\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/BN_iPad_Screen1-620x452.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"BN_iPad_Screen1\" width=\"620\" height=\"452\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-159870\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been waiting to get the <a href=\"http:\/\/crunchgear.com\/tag\/nook\">Nook<\/A> experience on your <a href=\"http:\/\/crunchegar.com\/tag\/ipad\">iPad<\/A>, your wait is over. Barnes&#038;Noble just announced the availability of their Nook app, available free from the App Store.<\/p>\n<p>Nook is behind in the race to ereader hegemony so they&#8217;ve decided to add a few iPad specific including eight different fonts, customizable line spacing and margins, different font sizes, and themes. In short, B&#038;N reps said, &#8220;It&#8217;s a giant canvas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The app has two book &#8220;views:&#8221; grid &#8211; showing all of the covers and split which shows details of the book on a split screen with the cover. You can also lend books to friends by shooting emails to contacts using the built-in contact book interaction.<\/p>\n<p>The app supports in-book search, bookmarks, and syncs among devices. It also supports ePub formats. They also said the Android App is arriving this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Click through to read the full release.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-159802\"><\/span><\/p>\n<style type='text\/css'>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t<\/style>\n<p>\t\t<!-- see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php --><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-159802'>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/05\/27\/bn-launches-a-nook-ipad-app\/bn_ipad_screen1\/' title='BN_iPad_Screen1'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/BN_iPad_Screen1-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"BN_iPad_Screen1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/05\/27\/bn-launches-a-nook-ipad-app\/bn_ipad_screen2\/' title='BN_iPad_Screen2'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/BN_iPad_Screen2-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"BN_iPad_Screen2\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/05\/27\/bn-launches-a-nook-ipad-app\/bn_ipad_screen3\/' title='BN_iPad_Screen3'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/BN_iPad_Screen3-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"BN_iPad_Screen3\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/p>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/05\/27\/bn-launches-a-nook-ipad-app\/bn_ipad_screen4\/' title='BN_iPad_Screen4'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/BN_iPad_Screen4-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"BN_iPad_Screen4\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/05\/27\/bn-launches-a-nook-ipad-app\/bn_ipad_screen5\/' title='BN_iPad_Screen5'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/BN_iPad_Screen5-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"BN_iPad_Screen5\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>\t\t\t<br style='clear: both;' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nBarnes &#038; Noble Introduces BN eReader for iPad\u2122,<br \/>\nThe Most Easy-to-Use, Customizable iPad App<br \/>\nfor Reading and Buying eBooks and Periodicals<br \/>\nFree App Offers Access to Company\u2019s Expansive eBookstore Featuring More Than<\/p>\n<p>One Million Digital Titles and Personal Barnes &#038; Noble Digital Library<br \/>\nOnly iPad eReading App That Allows Sharing eBook with Friends<br \/>\nFree Classics and Bestseller Samples Pre-Loaded for New BN.com Customers<br \/>\nNew York, New York \u2013 May 27, 2010 \u2013 Barnes &#038; Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world\u2019s largest bookseller, today launched its free BN eReader app for iPad\u2122, offering<br \/>\nthe most personalized and easy-to-use eReading experience for Apple iPad owners. BN<br \/>\neReader for iPad users can customize the way they read with professionally designed or<br \/>\ncompletely personalized themes, shop more than one million eBooks, newspapers and<br \/>\nmagazines in the Barnes &#038; Noble eBookstore, and access their personal Barnes &#038; Noble<br \/>\ndigital library, including most periodicals. BN eReader for iPad is the only eReading app<br \/>\nthat offers eBook sharing with friends.<br \/>\nBN eReader for iPad is designed to offer an easy, yet sophisticated, customizable reading<br \/>\nexperience. Users can choose from multiple ways to view their library, including<br \/>\nprofessionally designed themes with elegant and complementary text and page colors, as<br \/>\nwell as fonts; and instantly switch between portrait and landscape views based on<br \/>\npersonal preference. BN eReader for iPad users can further personalize their reading<br \/>\nexperience with unparalleled options: literally millions of colors for text, pages,<br \/>\nhighlights and links; eight typefaces and five text sizes; and a variety of margins and<br \/>\ncustomizable spacing options. Learn more or get the new application at<br \/>\nwww.bn.com\/iPad.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019ve designed the most easy-to-use, highly customizable eReading experience for the<br \/>\niPad. Ours is the only app that enables iPad users to share eBooks with friends, shop<br \/>\nBarnes &#038; Noble\u2019s vast catalog of eBooks and periodicals and access your personal<br \/>\nBarnes &#038; Noble digital library across multiple devices.,\u201d said Douglas Gottlieb, Vice<br \/>\nPresident, Digital Products of Barnes &#038; Noble.com. \u201cWe believe our customers will<br \/>\nappreciate the book-centric touches we\u2019ve incorporated into our iPad app experience \u2013<br \/>\nincluding some extra large text sizes, ample margins, and line lengths and spacing<br \/>\ninspired by classic book design conventions \u2013 along with the opportunity to fully<br \/>\npersonalize that experience to enjoy reading books whichever ways they like best.\u201d<br \/>\nLend to Friends<br \/>\nUsing Barnes &#038; Noble\u2019s breakthrough LendMe\u2122 technology, BN eReader for iPad<br \/>\ncustomers can share eligible eBooks with friends who can enjoy the titles on a NOOK\u2122<br \/>\neBook Reader, iPad, iPhone\u00ae, iPod touch\u00ae and PC enabled with free BN eReader<br \/>\nsoftware. Last page read, highlights, notes and bookmarks will also sync across BN<br \/>\neReader for iPad and PC, and in early summer, with iPhone and iPod touch, with more to<br \/>\nThe LendMe experience was designed to be seamlessly integrated with the iPad. BN<br \/>\neReader for iPad users can simply choose an eligible eBook flagged with the LendMe<br \/>\nicon, then access their existing contacts in iPad\u2019s onboard address book, tap the contact<br \/>\nand send the lend offer &#8212; all without needing to type a single word. The friend can accept<br \/>\nthe offer and enjoy the eBook for up to 14 days, a unique feature offered only by Barnes<br \/>\n&#038; Noble. And BN eReader for iPad users will receive LendMe offers from friends within<br \/>\nthe application, showing them the eBook\u2019s cover and the message from their friend.<br \/>\nAdditional features available in the BN eReader App for iPad include:<br \/>\nShop the expansive eBookstore: Search, explore and browse through the Barnes<br \/>\n&#038; Noble eBookstore of more than one million eBooks, magazines and<br \/>\nnewspapers titles at www.bn.com\/ebooks directly by touching Add Books from<br \/>\nthe Library. There are more than a half-million free eBooks available, and free<br \/>\nsamples are available for all eBooks. Learn more from thousands of editorial and<br \/>\ncustomer reviews. Pick a current bestseller, a classic or anything in between and<br \/>\ndownload it wirelessly in seconds.<br \/>\nAccess your personal digital library: All eBooks and most newspapers, and<br \/>\nmagazines purchased through the Barnes &#038; Noble eBookstore, including those<br \/>\npurchased on NOOK, are at your fingertips in your Library. Customers with large<br \/>\ndigital libraries will appreciate the search option that helps them find the desired<br \/>\nbook quickly.<br \/>\nChoose from two views: Library Grid view displays big, beautiful covers that are<br \/>\nlarge and easy to read. Library List displays a column with digital content titles<br \/>\nand eBook covers next to a second larger section that provides rich product details<br \/>\nfor the selected eBook including the synopsis and more books from that author.<br \/>\nSort by recently read, author or title.<br \/>\nGet to your content, faster: The most recently read titles appear on top to easily<br \/>\nget you back to your last great read. And an in-book search also helps you locate<br \/>\na particular word or phrase.<br \/>\nTake notes: Bookmark pages, make highlights and write notes. Simply tap a<br \/>\nword or drag your finger across a section to highlight it or make a note. In<br \/>\naddition to appearing on your iPad, your bookmarks, highlights and notes will<br \/>\nalso appear on iPad and PC enabled with BN eReader software. iPhone and iPod<br \/>\ntouch will be added soon, followed by other devices.<br \/>\nRead across multiple devices: Sync the last page read of the last eBook, magazine<br \/>\nor newspaper opened on your iPad with BN eReader software-enabled PCs.<br \/>\nComing next month, both will sync with BN eReader enabled iPhone and iPod<br \/>\ntouch with more devices to follow.<br \/>\nLearn more: Tap a word on the touch screen and the in-text dictionary offers you<br \/>\nthe word\u2019s meaning. Want to learn more? Simply tap one of the options to take<br \/>\nyou to the Google or Wikipedia page on that word or term using the Web<br \/>\nbrowser.<br \/>\nFollows the standard: Read eBooks, magazines and newspapers formatted in<br \/>\nePub, quickly becoming the industry standard.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/yRguwjjNL18Fh1BouopotsGP1Vk\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/yRguwjjNL18Fh1BouopotsGP1Vk\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/yRguwjjNL18Fh1BouopotsGP1Vk\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/yRguwjjNL18Fh1BouopotsGP1Vk\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=SbzsVIwTEzQ:WYzAOMyx42s:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=SbzsVIwTEzQ:WYzAOMyx42s:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=SbzsVIwTEzQ:WYzAOMyx42s:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=SbzsVIwTEzQ:WYzAOMyx42s:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=SbzsVIwTEzQ:WYzAOMyx42s:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been waiting to get the Nook experience on your iPad, your wait is over. 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