Barnes & Noble will reveal a Lenovo-made Nook tablet next week
Barnes & Noble’s line of Nook e-readers isn’t dead yet. The company has confirmed to The Verge that despite running out of stock, it still plans to sell its Kindle competitors once new units arrive in stores later this spring. In fact, there’s a previously unannounced tablet that the company will imminently reveal.
Susan McCulloch, Barnes & Noble’s senior director for Nook operations, tells The Verge that the company will bring back its Nook tablet line with “a new NOOK tablet designed with Lenovo” that it will reveal next week. Barnes & Noble’s most recent Nook tablet was the $129 10.1-inch Nook, its largest Android tablet ever. But it, along with every other Android tablet from Barnes & Noble, has been unavailable to purchase since...