Gadgets|May 16, 2011 11:20 pm

Barnes & Noble logs 1m Nook app downloads in first week, people are probably playing Angry Birds instead of reading

We were flattering stoked when Barnes & Noble eventually done Android apps a legit underline upon a Nook Color (lack of Market entrance be damned) and, unsurprisingly, many of you were, as well — a association reports that inside of a week of creation these applications available, it strike 1 million downloads. It would appear you can reap dual stunningly viewable things from this tidbit: one, a further of facilities by program updates creates people happy. Two: you people unequivocally feel a need to fool around Angry Birds upon each device you own, do not you? According to B&N, a everlasting avian philharmonic surfaced a paid app list, with Fliq Calendar heading a giveaway ones. Missing from this stat, of course, is any discernment in to how quick this catalogue is flourishing — a great question, given these Android applications have to get tweaked generally for a Nook Color prior to you can download ‘em. Self-congratulatory press recover after a break. Show full PR textBarnes & Noble Quickly Hits 1 Million NOOK Apps™ Downloads by NOOK Color™ Customers

Milestone Reached Just One Week After NOOK App Shopping Made Available to All NOOK Color Customers

Angry Birds, Drawing Pad, Fliq Calendar as well as Pulse Among Most Popular Apps

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), a world’s largest bookseller, voiced a vital latest miracle for a not long ago updated award-winning NOOK Color Reader’s Tablet™. Just a single week after a association done a giveaway program refurbish featuring renouned NOOK Apps accessible over a air for all NOOK Color customers, business have done some-more than a single million apps downloads. NOOK Color business have been enjoying entrance to a accumulation of renouned NOOK Apps as well as downloading a preference of both paid as well as giveaway apps that get even some-more out of their Reader’s Tablet, as well as have given a tip 10 paid as well as giveaway NOOK Apps a tip 4 or 5 star rating.

All NOOK Apps have been optimized for NOOK Color’s overwhelming 7-inch tone touchscreen. The tip 5 paid NOOK Apps have been Angry Birds, Drawing Pad, Solitaire, Aces Jewel Hunt as well as Astraware Mahjong. Among a tip 5 giveaway NOOK Apps have been Fliq Calendar, Fliq Notes, Pulse, NOOK Word of a Day™ as well as Fliq Tasks, that assistance keep business orderly as well as sensitive upon a rarely unstable NOOK Color. With a latest v1.2 program update, Barnes & Noble brought a most-requested inscription facilities to a bestselling NOOK Color, which, in further to NOOK Apps, includes full-featured built-in email, extended Web knowledge as well as some-more sparkling calm for adults as well as children. The device, that had already been acclaimed as a many appropriate celebration of a mass device upon a market, is right away a many appropriate inscription worth upon a marketplace during only $249.

“Our latest program refurbish to NOOK Color delivered a many requested inscription facilities by a customers, together with a capability to emporium for as well as download high-quality apps. Reaching over a million app downloads in only a week given a launch of NOOK App selling for all NOOK Color business exceeded expectations, as well as is an sparkling miracle for a developers, edition partners, as well as many importantly for a fast flourishing NOOK Color user base,” pronounced William Lynch, Chief Executive Officer of Barnes & Noble. “Our stores as well as booksellers have been a pass partial of educating a immeasurable NOOK patron bottom upon a superb applications accessible for them. We’re structure upon a early success of a NOOK Apps charity by scaling a pick up of renouned apps with a thousands of developers who’ve approached us, whilst ensuring you go upon to broach a high-quality knowledge NOOK Color is well known for.

Barnes & Noble continues to move NOOK Color business latest applications from heading third-party developers as well as calm providers for a total family to enjoy. In a past weeks, Barnes & Noble has combined latest NOOK Apps together with QuickOffice Pro, FriendCaster for Facebook, UrbanDaddy, some-more games from Concrete Software together with Aces Traffic Pack, Aces Cribbage as well as PBA Bowling 2, FlightView Elite, RepliGo Reader, as well as 3001 Wisdom quotes. Recently combined NOOK Apps for young kids embody Bloki, My First Alphabet Sights & Sounds as well as CardDroid Math peep cards. Through a Shop area upon a device, NOOK Color business can simply try NOOK Apps, accessible in categories together with Play, Organize, Learn, Explore, Lifestyle, News as well as Kids. Approximately half of a pick up accessible for $2.99 or reduction as well as a immeasurable infancy labelled during $5.99 or less.

More report about a latest NOOK Color refurbish is accessible during www.nookcolor.com/update. Barnes & Noble invites stream as well as impending NOOK business to knowledge latest NOOK Apps during a NOOK Boutique™ or arrangement in a single of Barnes & Noble’s some-more than 700 bookstores opposite a nation or by on vacation www.nookcolor.com.

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