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But then a funny thing happened on the way to the gallows. Not that the Apple iPad has suffered. But it is clear that we have two distinct product classes here with less overlap than originally thought. So how did Amazon do it? Amazon kept the price of the Kindle in the impulse range. Barnes & Noble Extends Its Best-In-Class Digital Children’s Reading Experience With New NOOK Kids™ For IPad™ Application.
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, today announced it is extending its popular digital children’s reading experience to iPad owners with the introduction of the NOOK kids for iPad application, available for free at www.NOOKkids.com/ipad and www.itunes.com/appstore. The new application makes the company’s expansive digital catalog of children’s content – including 100 new interactive kids’ books including Caps for Sale, Skippyjon Jones and Sheep in a Jeep – even more accessible to customers of all ages, bringing iPad owners the state-of-the-art children’s reading experience first available on NOOKcolor by Barnes & Noble.
With an entirely new application designed specifically for children, NOOK kids for iPad offers various features exclusive to the NOOK kids reading experience.