TWICE - October 26, 2009

Barnes & Noble introduced the Nook e-reader, which may be the strongest competitor yet to Amazon's Kindle. The Nook includes features not offered on the Kindle, including dual screens, Wi-Fi, a book “lending” feature and an open format. The Nook also uses Google's Android operating system, which is expected to lead to app downloads to the Nook in the future, sa...

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