Gadgets
Lower Priced Barnes & Noble Tablet On The Way?
Reports Of A $199 Nook With Less Memory Coming Soon
By Gary Krakow
According to newly published reports, Barnes & Noble is readying an 8GB version of its popular Nook Tablet to compete, price-wise, with Amazon's Kindle Fire.
The current Nook Tablet comes with 16GB of internal storage and sells for $249. And the popular Kindle Fire sells for $199 and ships with 8GB of internal storage. Both designs run on variants of Goodle's Android operating system.
A story on TheVerge.com believes that Walmart plans to sell the new, less expensive Nook Tablet beginning at 12:01 am this Wednesday, February with the items already in stock in stores.
Barnes & Noble is also offering discounts, ranging from $50 to $100, on its entire line of tablets when bundled with a one year Nook subscription to The New York Times.