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But Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps says that the impressive set of capabilities combined with a $259 price tag adds up to another Nook feature that is less favorable for Barnes & Noble: a thin, or possibly non-existent profit margin.
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The Nook features built-in wireless connectivity, enabling over-the-air purchases of any of Barnes & Noble's 1.5 million e-books -- 500,000 of which are free.
Barnes & Noble is understandably proud of its latest creation and proudly stated on stage that the new Nook features 37 less buttons than the latest Kindle.
One nook features Feng Mengbo's wall-length interactive video game involving a Chinese soldier fighting off Russian tanks with explosive Coca-Cola cans.
The Nook Friends feature lets your buddies on Twitter and Facebook see what you're reading and lets you "lend" them books you've bought.
So Barnes & Noble just added "Read in Store" functionality to the Nook, a feature that allows you to browse any ebook on your Nook while you're in the store.
But it is clear the company is trying to consolidate sales of e-books onto the Nook, which features a six-inch gray and white reading screen and a color touch screen control panel.
Competition is likely to be more fierce in the 7in category where the basic £159 Nook HD, featuring 8GB of storage, will compete against similarly priced offerings from Amazon, Kobo and Elonex as well as Asus's Google-branded Nexus 7 tablet.
This January, CPTV will air a program called "Mark Twain's Neighborhood: Nook Farm," which features the actors.
But sales of the Windows 8 operating system have been disappointing and the Nook has been featured as little more than an app among hundreds on the Windows 8 platform.
There are two events at the Book Nook each month, featuring big hitters such as Nadia Shireen (8 October) and Nick Sharratt (29 October), as well as Paul Stewart and the Observer's Chris Riddell.
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