Barnes and Noble announced Tuesday that there’s a new Nook in their line-up for the holiday season: The Nook GlowLight. According to Laura Hazard Owen on Gigaom, the biggest difference between the new Nook and the Kindle Paperwhite is the internal storage: The Nook has four gigabytes of built-in storage compared to the Paperwhite’s two gigabytes.
The e-reader is being marketed as an updated version of the Nook SimpleTouch with GlowLight (meant for reading at night), which sells for $99 (but will no longer be available at Barnes & Noble stores). The new version is $20 more ($119) and has a front-lit touch-screen and software that offers personal and curated book recommendations. “The idea the company is trying to promote is that people regularly walk into their neighborhood Barnes & Noble and ask a friendly employee for a book recommendation,” says Hazard Owen. According to Julie Bosman in The New York Times the biggest obstacle that the book conglomerate, and its e-readers face, is the company’s long-term viability. James McQuivey, an analyst at Forrester Research, told the Times that it’s unclear whether customers perceive Barnes & Noble “as a company will be around to fulfill the promises that the device makes.”
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