Barnes & Noble Touts Nook Apps Success, Now Sporting Twice The Apps Since Launch With “Millions” Of Downloads [Nook Color Users Have Downloaded "Millions" Of Apps, Plus New Apps Have Come Available Including Disney Cars & Cars 2 Interactive Books]

Posted on TFTS by Robert Nelson on Friday, 24. June 2011 under: PCs, Notebooks, Netbooks & Tablets

Barnes & Noble rolled out the Android 2.2 update for the Nook Color back in late-April and with that came the addition of Nook Apps, which as the name implies is the app store for the device. Of course, Barnes & Noble also saw some initial success with Nook Apps, well, some success based on how they touted how the first 1 million apps were downloaded in the first weeks time.

And well, flash forward till today and it looks like Barnes & Noble has returned with another Nook Apps related update, and this time they are touting “millions” of downloads.

“Since we added our customers’ most-requested tablet features just a few weeks ago, we’ve had an amazing response, particularly to our growing array of popular apps that give customers the ability to do even more with their award-winning, best value Reader’s Tablet.”

That amazing response, that has come in the form of millions of customer downloads, though Barnes & Noble did not clarify how many millions. But perhaps more important, the available selection of apps has since doubled. Not to mention, there is now an “expanded” collection of digital picture books with titles to include Disney Cars and Cars 2 as well as 50 of the “I Can Read” books.

Otherwise, Barnes & Noble has also recently added 35 new narrated childrens books including titles such as SpongeBob SquarePants, Frog and Toad, Thomas and Friends and more. And speaking in terms of childrens books, B&N noted that they now have more than 475 picture books available as well as more than 12,000 childrens age chapter books.

And lastly, in terms of the Nook Newstand, this section is now sporting more than 165 periodical titles including some recent additions such as Discover, Automobile, Billboard, Astronomy, Birds & Blooms and The Hollywood Reporter. Plus — for Oprah fans — there will also be “The Oprah Magazine official commemorative issue digital edition, available exclusively on NOOK Color for a limited time.”

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