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Barnes & Noble unveils $199 Nook Tablet

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Published : Feb. 22, 2012 - 09:15

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US bookseller Barnes & Noble unveiled a new version of its Nook tablet computer Tuesday, a device with the same $199 price tag as Amazon's Kindle Fire.



The seven-inch (17.78-centimeter) Nook Tablet also has eight gigabytes of memory like the tablet released by online retail giant Amazon in November.

Apple's cheapest iPad costs $499. Barnes & Noble released a $249 Nook Tablet with 16 gigabytes of memory in November.

Barnes & Noble also said it was slashing the price of its Nook Color electronic book reader to $169 from the current $199.

The New York-based bookseller also announced its fiscal third-quarter results on Tuesday.

The company said its net profit fell to $52 million in the quarter compared to $60.6 million in the same quarter a year ago. Revenue was up five percent at $2.4 billion in the quarter which ended on January 28.

"Our physical book sales at our stores increased more than four percent over last year," Barnes & Noble chief executive William Lynch said in a statement.

"Our Nook digital content business continues to grow rapidly," Lynch added.

"According to some of the largest US publishers, we maintained or slightly gained share in the e-book market during the third quarter."

Barnes & Noble said sales of digital content and Nook tablets and e-readers rose 38 percent during the quarter to $542 million. (AFP)

 

<한글 기사>

태블릿PC 이제 가격 경쟁이다

반즈앤노블, 킨들 파이어 대항마로 20만원대 '누크 태블릿' 선보여

미국 내 최대 서적유통업체인 반즈앤노블이 최근 태블릿PC시장에서 돌풍을 일으키고 있는 아마존의 킨들 파이어를 겨냥해 199달러짜리 태블릿PC '누크 태블릿'을 선보였다고 미 IT전문매체인 씨넷이 21일(현지시간) 보도했다.

이에 따르면 기존 제품보다 50달러 저렴한 이 태블릿PC는 킨들 파이어와 가격과 메모리용량(8GB)이 같다.

지난해 11월 출시된 아마존의 킨들 파이어는 파격적인 가격과 온라인 스토어상 의 다양한 콘텐츠 등에 힘입어 현재 애플의 아이패드에 이어 시장 점유율 2위를 기록중이다.

반즈앤노블은 또 전자책 단말기인 '누크 컬러'의 가격도 30달러 인하해 169달러 에 판매키로 했다고 발표했다.

반즈앤노블은 새로 출시된 누크 태블릿과 가격 인하된 누크 컬러를 이날부터 자 사 웹사이트를 통해 판매하고 조만간 베스트바이나 월마트를 통해 판매할 계획이라 고 덧붙였다.

반즈앤노블은 최근 전통적인 종이책 판매가 최근 시장성숙으로 주춤한 상태여서 태블릿PC와 전자책 단말기 등을 통해 돌파구를 모색해왔다.

반즈앤노블은 지난 1월28일로 끝난 전분기 매출이 24억4천만달러로 전년도 대비 5% 상승했지만 이익은 5천200만달러로 14% 줄었다고 밝혔다.

 

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