Barnes & Noble finally releases Nook app for the iPad
Barnes & Noble has finally released its own e-reader app for the iPad, making it the last of the best known e-readers to make the transition.
Upon the launch of the iPad, Apple had its own iBook application you could download, and Amazon wasted no time getting its Kindle app on there also. Conspicuously missing was Barnes & Noble’s Nook app. It was well known that the company was planning one, but no one knew for sure when it was coming or what features it would bring since the actual physical Nook appears to coming up as an “also ran” in the e-reader market.
It seems that Barnes & Noble may have taken the extra time to take a look at what was already in the marketplace and come out with something that offers more features than the others. The app focuses heavily on customization and offers a lot of ways to accomplish that end:
- Eight different fonts
- Customizable line spacing and margins
- Different font sizes
- Different display themes
Users will also find they can search the text of a book, bookmark areas and sync their reading with other Nook devices and apps that they have.
“We’ve designed the most easy-to-use, highly customizable eReading experience for the iPad. Ours is the only app that enables iPad users to share eBooks with friends, shop Barnes & Noble’s vast catalog of eBooks and periodicals and access your personal Barnes & Noble digital library across multiple devices,” said Douglas Gottlieb, Vice
President, Digital Products of Barnes & Noble.com. “We believe our customers will appreciate the book-centric touches we’ve incorporated into our iPad app experience –
including some extra large text sizes, ample margins, and line lengths and spacing inspired by classic book design conventions – along with the opportunity to fully
personalize that experience to enjoy reading books whichever ways they like best.”
The Nook app is available for free in the iPad App Store.
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