Nook’s death rattle

[Wireless News]

Barneslending device& Noble has finally slashed the price of its moribund Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight to $99. The entire eBook reader industry received a fatal blow when Amazon launched its Kindle Fire,lending devicea fairly impressive tablet at $199. All eBooks on the market were simply priced too high tolending deviceprevent consumers from being seduced by slightly more expensive tablets with fancy color touchscreens and more expansive feature sets. Not even $79 was cheap enough to preventlending devicebuyers from bolting. The eBook readerlending devicemarket cave-inlending devicehas been particularlylending devicerough on Barnes & Noble, a struggling book store chain that seemed to gain a new lease on life with its Nook products a few years ago. It’s not clear why B&N kept thelending deviceGlowlight devicelending devicepriced above $100 so long,

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