High demand for the Barnes & Noble simple touch Nook over Black Friday

The famous book store, Barnes & Noble, had released a special Black Friday sale price for their popular e-Reader, the Simple Touch Nook.

The Nook, normally sold for 99$ got a special 20$ discount price for this weekend – selling at only 79$, making it one of the cheapest e-book reader out there.

This price discount actually brought the Nook to match the Amazon’s Kindle price tag, thus taking the eBook reader “wars” to a hole new level.

To complement the sale price Barnes&Noble also presented discounts on many of their e-Books and Games which went up to 50%.

The combination of a cheap yet good eBook reader, discounted books and eBooks and the Holidays lead to a high demand for the product in the Barnes&Noble stores.

Long queues were reported in front of the company’s shops and a high level of buyers was registered over the weekend.

The Barnes & Noble eBook main features are:

• E Ink^® display – 25% faster than any other eReader (according to the company’s website).
• Best–Textâ„¢, ultra-crisp, reads like paper – even in bright sun
• Long battery life – read for up to 2 months based on 1 hour of daily reading
• Over 2.5 million books
• Built-in Wi-Fi®
• Free NOOK support in-store
• Borrow books from public libraries with the device