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Want to see the new full-color Nook?

By Carolyn Kellogg
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We would like to have been at the Barnes & Noble press conference today announcing the new, full-color version of the Nook. But it was held in New York, at their Union Square store. Luckily, Engadget has the full rundown, with photos and lots of details.

Available for pre-order for now, the new, full-color, interactively tablet-ized Nook retails for $249 and is said to begin shipping Nov. 19. (That’s as long as there are no repeat delays, like last year’s.)

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The new Nook has gotten app-y, using Android -- music site Pandora is on board, as is Dictionary.com and Lonely Planet. Also, you can play Sudoku.

Readers are, not surprisingly, a key audience, with the new Nook offering 100 newspapers and magazine and new sharing features.

As for content,’Random House, MacMillan, Hearst, Penguin, Conde Nast, Simon & Schuster, and Harper Collins’ were thanked at the event, according to Engadget. That’s two major magazine publisehrs and five of book publishing’s big six (where was Hachette?).

We’ll have more on the new Nook soon -- with pictures, we hope.

-- Carolyn Kellogg

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.

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