Barnes & Noble Launches NOOK® HD and NOOK HD+, Lightest and Highest-Resolution 7-Inch HD Tablet and World’s Lightest Full HD Tablet
Incredible Reading and Entertainment Like Never Seen Before on 7- and 9-Inch Tablets
Designed for Both Personal Use and the Whole Family to Share – Like Having Multiple Devices in One
NOOK HD Offers World’s Highest Resolution Display Ever on a 7-Inch Media Tablet Starting at Only $199
NOOK HD+ is Lightest, Lowest-Priced Full HD Tablet Ever Starting at Only $269
Unbeatable Values for Top Quality Tablets and No Distracting Ads Coming to the US and UK This Fall; Pre-Order Starting Today at NOOK.com and Barnes & Noble Stores
New York, New York – September 26, 2012 –Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS),
the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational
products, today introduced NOOK HD and NOOK HD+, the lightest HD and
full HD tablets. The super-fast and lightweight 7-inch NOOK HD and
9-inch NOOK HD+ feature must-see displays for superior reading and
entertainment and an instantly personalized tablet experience for each
family member. In fact, NOOK HD boasts the world’s highest-resolution
ever on a 7-inch tablet and NOOK HD+ rivals the industry-leading
tablet’s display. Starting at the low prices of $199 for NOOK HD and
$269 for NOOK HD+, nearly half the cost of the leading large-format
tablet, both products deliver an amazing value for customers, with no
annoying ads. With more than three million books, a large selection of
magazines and apps, and now with newly launched NOOK Video™ and NOOK Catalog™
content, NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ offer virtually endless reading and
entertainment at customers’ fingertips. Both are available for pre-order
at www.nook.com and Barnes & Noble stores for customers to enjoy beginning in early November.
The fantastic new 7-inch NOOK HD and 9-inch NOOK HD+ are packed with favorite tablet features that the whole family will love:
A Personalized Tablet Experience for Both Individuals and Families
According to research by Barnes & Noble, more than 50 percent of
tablet owners share their devices with others in their family every day.
Half also say they would never let their child handle their device
unattended. Not surprising, given that more than a third of tablet
owners report having content on their devices they don’t want anyone
else to see. NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ are designed precisely to provide a
personalized experience for individuals and their family members,
allowing children to freely enjoy all the content they love without
happening upon all that mom and dad would rather they didn’t see. New
NOOK Profiles™ instantly transform the device in hand to any
family member’s very own tablet. With a quick tap on a profile at the
top of the screen, the entire experience magically changes into that
family member’s personal tablet as their own content – and personalized
recommendations – appear on the display. Now mom’s NOOK becomes Billy’s
NOOK, becomes dad’s NOOK and so on. In a blink, one device is like four,
five or six. Adults can use their personal passwords to easily access
their books, magazines, videos, apps and more. Children can dive into
their collection of digital picture books, learning apps and
kid-friendly videos, while tweens and teens can access their chapter
books, magazines, games and favorite TV shows. Enhanced controls with
simple settings and password features empower parents to easily manage
their children’s access to the Web, content and shopping.
Must-Have Tablet Features
The new NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ are optimized to deliver unparalleled
experiences in the areas that company research showed NOOK tablet owners
use most: reading, Web, video and email. The reading experience is
unmatched, offering beautifully rendered text, magazines in spectacular
HD and lightning fast page turns. Thanks to top-end processors, the
newly designed Web browser in NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ is super-fast, making
it simple and smooth to surf favorite sites with a tap, pinch and zoom.
New to the Web, ArticleView™ allows you to customize your
online reading experience. Both NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ offer access to a
collection of popular movies and TV shows through new NOOK Video. And an
all-new built-in email app offers new features in an easy-to-use, clean
format that supports a host of popular personal and work-related email
services including Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync.
NOOK HD – The Most Exceptional Reading and Entertainment Experience in a 7-Inch Tablet
Best 7-Inch Display: NOOK HD includes a newly invented,
brilliant display that delivers the highest quality text, graphics and
video experience in a 7-inch media tablet. Packed with pixels, every
book read, every movie watched, every game played is rendered in a
digital quality never before seen. NOOK HD offers the highest-resolution
display ever on a 7-inch tablet at 1440 x 900, with an unprecedented
243 pixels per inch and HD video playback of up to 720p. It’s
ultra-sharp with 25 percent more pixels than Kindle Fire HD for a better
overall viewing experience. Building on the highly advanced laminated
displays first seen in the 7-inch category on previous NOOK LCD
products, NOOK HD features the most advanced IPS display coupled with
world-class optical bonding technology with no air gap to deliver
low-glare and a wide viewing angle for sharing.
Super-Light and a Joy to Hold: Weight matters, and no
other leading 7-inch HD tablet is lighter than NOOK HD. By developing a
breakthrough design that integrates the display into the device itself,
Barnes & Noble eliminated many components to keep NOOK HD
super-light, yet durable. At only 11.1 ounces (315 grams) and just
5-inches wide, it’s more than 20 percent lighter and nearly a half-inch
narrower than Kindle Fire HD. So, it fits the hand beautifully and is
finished with soft-touch paint that makes it comfortable for even a
young child to hold. NOOK HD is ergonomically contoured for comfort and
slips easily into a men’s suit coat, a woman’s handbag or a child’s
backpack.
Lightning Fast: Armed with a dual-core 1.3GHz
high-speed processor, NOOK HD is lightning fast, highly responsive and
smooth. With its more powerful processor, it’s not surprising that NOOK
HD is faster than Kindle Fire HD for a nimble overall experience and 80
percent faster when it comes to graphics processing for smoother, faster
animations, renderings, apps experience and more. The 1GB of RAM allows
customers to easily zip from one app to another and play movies.
More Choices: The world’s most exceptional 7-inch
reading and entertainment tablet is now available for pre-order in two
colors, “Snow” and “Smoke.” Starting at just $199 for an 8GB model and
only $229 for a 16GB version – both featuring expandable microSD memory
storage – customers can pre-order at www.nook.com and at Barnes & Noble stores.
NOOK HD+ – The Lightest and Lowest-Priced Full HD Tablet Ever
Spectacular Full HD Display: For those who want to
enjoy reading and entertainment on a larger scale, NOOK HD+ offers a
must-see full HD 9-inch display with resolution of 1920 x 1280 and 256
pixels per inch for up to 1080p for movies, magazines and more. The
fully laminated display reduces glare and provides excellent viewing
angles, perfect for personal or shared viewing. This amazing display
rivals the “resolutionary” screen of the leading high-resolution
large-format tablet, but is offered in a device that's more than 20
percent less weight and nearly half the price.
Incredibly Light Yet Powerful: Weighing in at only 18.2
ounces (515 grams), NOOK HD+ is big on display, yet lightweight, easy
to hold and take anywhere. It is the lightest full HD tablet ever
invented. NOOK HD+ is power-packed by a 1.5GHz dual-core processor with
1GB of RAM for a fast, smooth customer experience, whether browsing the
Web, reading books and magazines, watching videos, enjoying apps or
checking email.
Best Price Ever for Full HD Tablet: The beautifully
designed NOOK HD+, offered in the color “Slate,” features expandable
memory for even more storage with options of 16GB for $269 and 32GB for
$299 – two astoundingly low prices for a brilliant, super-light 9-inch
reading and entertainment tablet.
Both NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ will ship in late October and be available in stores in early November.
“With the combination of the highest resolution screen, lightest weight
and expansive access to content rendered in a digital quality never
before seen, NOOK HD is the world’s best 7-inch media tablet,” said
William J. Lynch, Chief Executive Officer of Barnes & Noble. “We
designed our larger format tablet NOOK HD+ because we think there’s big
demand from customers for a super-light, extremely high quality 9-inch
tablet, at half the price of the iPad. Both our 7-inch NOOK HD and
9-inch NOOK HD+ deliver an exceptional customer experience and we
enthusiastically encourage customers to go to nook.com and learn more
about them.”
Announcing Even More NOOK Content and Services to Enjoy
As part of the launch of NOOK HD and NOOK HD+, Barnes & Noble also
announced significant new additions and advancements to the NOOK content
ecosystem:
A Growing and Diverse Digital Catalog: The NOOK Store™
now offers more than 3 million books including bestselling books, new
releases, classics and enhanced titles with special content; the world’s
largest collection of nearly 3,500 best-loved English-language
children’s interactive picture books; a growing collection of comic
books and graphic novels; and picture-perfect art, photography, travel
guides and cookbook titles.
New – NOOK Video: Launching concurrently with the
shipment of the new products in late October, NOOK Video offers
customers their favorite standard and HD movies and TV shows for
streaming and download to enjoy in spectacular color and stunning
definition on NOOK HD and NOOK HD+. From major studios, networks and
companies like HBO®, STARZ, The Walt Disney
Studios and Warner Brothers Entertainment, the NOOK Video catalog offers
something for everyone in the family to enjoy. Customers will find TV
favorites such as Game of Thrones®, Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead to movie favorites like Disney-Pixar’s Brave, The Dark Knight
and Harry Potter movies. Both devices are designed with an HDMI
compatible port to allow customers to easily connect to their TVs to
watch movies and shows in up to full 1080p. Videos streamed and
downloaded from the NOOK Store are stored safely and securely in the
NOOK Cloud™, so NOOK Video content can also be viewed on NOOK
devices, TVs, smartphones and tablets via a suite of new free NOOK
Video apps. Like free NOOK Reading apps, all-new NOOK Video apps
automatically sync so customers can pick up watching right where they
left off on the compatible device of their choosing.
UltraViolet™ Support:
NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ are the first UltraViolet-enabled tablets, so
right out of the box they seamlessly integrate a customer’s compatible
physical DVD and Blu-ray Disc™ purchases and digital video
collection across their devices. Customers will be able to easily link
their UltraViolet accounts to the NOOK Cloud allowing them to view their
previously and newly purchased UltraViolet-enabled movies and TV shows
across NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ devices, NOOK Video apps and third-party
applications. In addition to purchasing a digital version via NOOK
Video, customers can shop for DVDs and Blu-ray Discs with the
UltraViolet logo in Barnes & Noble and other retail stores, add them
to their digital collection, and instantly watch compatible titles from
the NOOK Cloud to enjoy wherever they go and however they choose.
Magazine 2.0: NOOK Newsstand™ has the
largest digital collection of the top 100 bestselling magazines
available for both digital subscriptions and single copy sale. With NOOK
HD and NOOK HD+, the industry-leading magazine experience just got even
better. A new visual table of contents lets customers view thumbnails
of the entire magazine and simply tap the article they want to read
first. Magazines feature a super-fast, 3D-like page turn and include
built-in hot spots for readers to quickly jump to specific articles and
go deeper on a subject or story through audio, video and Web linking.
NOOK’s innovative ArticleView lets the reader focus only on the text,
customized to their needs. The company also introduced a breakthrough
NOOK Scrapbook™, where magazine readers can virtually clip pages of interest and save them in customized digital scrapbooks.
All-New Newspaper Experience: Extra! Extra! NOOK
Newspapers have an all-new design on NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ that make it
even easier and more fun to read newspapers digitally. Customers can
view and choose each of the paper’s sections on the left column to tap
and read in a snap. The large selection of daily and weekly newspapers
are available through subscription or single copies and are
automatically downloaded via Wi-Fi® to the device when available for reading with morning coffee, on the commute home or anywhere in between.
New – NOOK Catalog: NOOK Catalog offers a convenient
browsing and shopping experience through a selection of colorful,
complimentary catalogs from leading retailers including Pottery Barn,
L.L.Bean, Frontgate, Garnet Hill and Harry & David – with 100 top
catalogs available this holiday. Customers’ catalogs are delivered
magically to their devices when published so they can virtually flip
through the pages to explore, tap on a product of interest for more
information from the retailer’s Web site and make a purchase. The new
NOOK Scrapbook feature can also be used to rip and save select pages in a
personalized collection along with other chosen pages saved from
catalogs and magazines.
Top Apps: The global developer community has quickly been innovating and adding to the catalog of high-quality NOOK Apps™.
The number of NOOK Apps has grown 10x in the last year and 100x since
launching and includes all the most popular and bestselling top 100 app
titles for tablets available anywhere. NOOK Apps features a wide range
of titles for the whole family, including the hottest games, as well as
lifestyle, productivity, news, entertainment and reading apps. In fact,
only the NOOK Store provides helpful age recommendations for parents and
lets customers browse by subject area to find the perfect app for their
child among the broadest and the most curated app collection of kids’
educational apps on any Android store. With games and activities focused
on language, math, puzzles, reading, art and more, NOOK provides
families with hours of playful learning that helps kids make the most of
their “screen time.”
Newly Revamped NOOK Store – A Better Way to Shop & Find Content:
NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ bring a new level of personal shopping service to
the device experience. Customers can tap on the Your NOOK Today™
icon on the home screen to reveal fresh content and personalized
recommendations each day. This includes their latest newsstand
subscriptions delivered virtually, plus cool apps and new titles matched
to their profile.
And just like a great bookshop, the revamped NOOK Store is a place of
continuous discovery. The new store experience allows customers to
easily shop by department or explore new NOOK Channels™, a
pioneering recommendation system that combines the unrivaled knowledge
of Barnes & Noble booksellers with advanced algorithmic technology
to create an unparalleled, curated browsing experience. Targeted by
interest and sensibility, each NOOK Channel programs a rich stream of
reading – and soon movies and apps – that includes the latest releases
as well as backlist gems, bestsellers as well as offbeat treasures.
Customers can browse and shop Channels that will expand their passions
for the authors and subjects they love, from Paranormal Romance, War
Stories, and Books to Talk About to Jane Austen & Heirs, The New
Classics, History by Plot and Books Every Kid Should Know.
NOOK Cloud: All NOOK content is delivered via Wi-Fi and
safely stored through NOOK Cloud, making NOOK Books, videos, apps and
other content accessible across NOOK, personal computing and mobile
devices using free NOOK Reading and NOOK Video apps.
Additional NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ Highlights
Battery Life that Lasts: Both devices feature
extra-long battery life optimized for extended use. NOOK HD offers up
to 10.5 hours of continuous reading and up to 9 hours of video watching,
while NOOK HD+ boasts up to 10 hours and up to 9 hours for reading and
video, respectively, all with Wi-Fi off.
Expandable Storage: In addition to generous onboard
storage, NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ also feature expandable memory using a
separate microSD card (up to 64GB) – another feature not offered on
Amazon’s tablets. NOOK gives customers an economical and flexible way to
carry their personal content, PDFs, music, videos and more anywhere.
A Better Value, Ad-Free: NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ offer
brilliant displays so customers can enjoy their favorite content and
personal photos, not annoying ads as with Amazon’s tablets. And with low
prices starting at $199 and $269 respectively, always ad-free NOOK
tablets are a better value than Amazon’s, which charges customers an
additional $15 for freedom from advertising offers on their tablet home
page.
Ready for Power: Barnes & Noble also knows that
customers prefer to charge their tablets quickly with an AC adapter,
every new NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ has one included at no extra cost. Amazon
charges $20 for their tablets’ adapters sold separately.
Superb Sound: To deliver excellent audio, NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ are designed with customized speakers and utilize SRS TruMedia™*
to create a wide sound field, deep bass, clear vocals and strong
midrange performance. Whether listening through the device’s speakers, a
pair of headphones or on a Bluetooth-enabled speaker, customers will
enjoy a rich audio experience watching videos, listening to music,
reading children’s picture books or playing games.
A NOOK of One’s Own: Gallery has never been so
personal with instant access to cherished memories from popular photo
sharing and social networking sites. Customers can add even more photos
to the Gallery from their computer or emails. NOOK becomes each family
member’s very own when they pick a favorite photo for the home screen
and screensaver for each individual profile – instead of
annoying ads. NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ also make it easy to share photos via
email or in person, by connecting NOOK to a TV.
Easy to Use New Interface: Both new tablets feature
an all-new beautiful “paper-like” user interface that gets customers
right into the content they want, and allows quick access into core
applications: Home, Library, Shop and Web. The new experience is
intended to make NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ the easiest tablets on the market
to use, empowering customers to take advantage of its extensive
functionality and enjoy a reading experience that far surpasses that of
any other tablets.
Stay Connected More Easily: The all-new email app on
NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ lets customers stay connected with what's
happening at the office through support for Microsoft Exchange
ActiveSync. Customers can check business email and sync calendar and
contacts, too. NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ also support email, calendar and
contacts syncing for popular services like Gmail, Hotmail and
Outlook.com, as well other popular POP3/IMAP email services like Yahoo!,
AOL and more.
Experience the entire NOOK family of products at www.nook.com
or at the NOOK Digital Shops and displays in one of Barnes &
Noble’s more than 700 bookstores and other leading retailers including
Best Buy, Target and Walmart, which will soon take pre-orders, and many
others. Barnes & Noble offers Always Free NOOK Support in all of its
neighborhood bookstores, with more than 40,000 NOOKsellers across the
country ready to assist customers with setting up their NOOK devices or
choosing their next great read.
Pre-orders for NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ will begin next month for customers
in the United Kingdom, as the products will be available there through
leading retailers and www.nook.co.uk in late November.
About Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the leading retailer of content,
digital media and educational products, operates 689 bookstores in 50
states. Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, also operates 667 college bookstores
serving over 4.6 million students and faculty members at colleges and
universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble conducts its
online business through BN.com (www.bn.com), one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites, which also features more than 3 million titles in its NOOK Bookstore™ (www.bn.com/ebooks). Through Barnes & Noble’s NOOK®
product offering, customers can buy and read digital books and content
on the widest range of platforms, including NOOK devices and the most
popular mobile and computing devices using free NOOK apps. Barnes &
Noble is proud to be named a J.D. Power and Associated 2012 Customer
Service Champion and is only one of 50 U.S. companies so named. Barnes
& Noble.com is ranked the number one online retailer in customer
satisfaction in the book, music and video category and a Top 10 online
retailer overall in customer satisfaction according to ForeSee E-Retail
Satisfaction Index (Spring Top 100 Edition).
General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company's corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com.
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Barnes & Noble's NOOK reading and entertainment products make it easy to read what you love, anywhere you like™
with a fun, easy-to-use and immersive digital reading experience. With
NOOK, customers gain access to Barnes & Noble's expansive NOOK Store™
of more than 3 million digital titles, and the ability to enjoy content
across a wide array of popular devices through free NOOK Reading Apps™ and NOOK Video apps, available at www.nook.com/freenookapps.
Barnes & Noble offers NOOK owners Always Free NOOK Support in any
of its nearly 700 bookstores. Find NOOK devices in Barnes & Noble
stores and online at www.nook.com,
as well as leading retailers including Best Buy, Walmart, Target and
many others. NOOK products will also soon be available in the United
Kingdom through www.nook.co.uk and leading retailers.
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the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) and
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Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with
respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain
risks, including, among others, the general economic environment and
consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes &
Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to
various factors, risk that international expansion will not be
successfully achieved or may be achieved later than expected, possible
disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems
or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy,
information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages
or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or
interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible
risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able
to be sold, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of
distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that the expected
sales lift from Borders’ store closures is not achieved in whole or
part, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and
the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend,
higher-than-anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher
interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital
and other initiatives, the performance and successful integration of
acquired businesses, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic
investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or
occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects,
product and component shortages, the potential adverse impact on the
business resulting from the review of a potential separation of the NOOK
digital business, the risk that the transactions contemplated by the
partnership with Microsoft to form Newco, including with respect to any
spin-off, split-off or other disposition by Barnes & Noble of its
interest in Newco, are not able to be implemented on the terms
contemplated or at all, the risk that the transactions do not achieve
the expected benefits for the parties including the risk that Newco’s
applications are not commercially successful or that the expected
distribution of those applications is not achieved, the risk that the
separation of the NOOK digital and College businesses or any subsequent
spin-off, split-off or other disposition by Barnes & Noble of its
interest in Newco results in adverse impacts on Company or Newco
(including as a result of termination of agreements and other adverse
impacts), the potential impact on Barnes & Noble’s retail business
of the separation, the potential tax consequences for Barnes &
Noble and its shareholders of a subsequent spin-off, split-off or other
disposition by Barnes & Noble of its interest in Newco, the risk
that the domestic and international expansion contemplated by the
relationship or otherwise is not successful or is delayed, including the
potential delay in distribution of devices and/or digital content, the
risk that Newco is not able to perform its obligations under the
commercial agreement, including with respect to the development of
applications and international expansion, and the consequences thereof,
the costs and disruptions arising out of any such separation of the
NOOK digital and College businesses, the risk that Barnes & Noble
may not recoup its investments in the NOOK digital business as part of
any separation transaction, the risks, difficulties, and uncertainties
that may result from the separation of businesses that were previously
co-mingled including necessary ongoing relationships, and potential for
adverse customer impacts and other factors which may be outside of
Barnes & Noble’s control, including those factors discussed in
detail in Item 1A, "Risk Factors," in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report
on Form 10-K and Form 10-K/A, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings
made hereafter from time to time with the SEC. Our forward looking
statements relating to international expansion are also subject to the
following risks, among others that may affect the introduction, success
and timing of the NOOK e-reader and content in countries outside the
United States: we may not be successful in reaching agreements with
international companies, the terms of agreements that we reach may not
be advantageous to us, our NOOK device may require technological changes
to comply with applicable laws, and marketplace acceptance and other
companies have already entered the marketplace with products that have
achieved some customer acceptance.
Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or
should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results or
outcomes may vary materially from those described as anticipated,
believed, estimated, expected, intended or planned. Subsequent written
and oral forward-looking statements attributable to Barnes & Noble
or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their
entirety by the cautionary statements in this paragraph.
Barnes & Noble undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise
any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise after the date of this communication.
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