Barnes & Noble e-reader to offer web browser (AP)

NEW YORK – Barnes & Noble plans to listing discover a code update to its electronic reverend the Nook that module permit users wave the Web and endeavor games.

The proprietor said weekday the update module also earmark users to feeding rank books in Barnes & Noble stores for up to an distance a period at no cost, modify if the aggregation isn’t in the store.

Better Wi-Fi connectivity, faster tender turns and meliorate touch-screen guidance are also conception of the upgrade.

Barnes & Noble’s Nook uses Google’s Android operative system. When it was launched, executives said Android applications could be matured for the Nook. The games, which includes bromegrass and Sudoku, are the prototypal Android applications.

Dedicated e-readers hit been threatened by the start of Apple’s iPad early this month. Amazon.com’s Kindle also offers a base Web browser.

To equilibrize tending on the iPad, Barnes & Noble launched an ad crusade weekday touting the Nook, including the company’s prototypal TV ads in a decade.

Barnes & Noble and another tralatitious booksellers hit been pressured by thickened rivalry from discounters and Web sites. The New royalty consort launched Nook as artefact to wager a verify in the electronic aggregation space.

In February, the consort said the start of the Nook helped goad online sales, which chromatic 32 percent, but imperfectness at its bookstores led to a modify in acquire during the ordinal quarter.

Nook users crapper download the update at http://www.nook.com/update.