Barnes and Noble might have just discontinued the Nook Glowlight 4e. The product is no longer on the main Nook and Tablet Page. The only products available are the Nook Glowlight 4, Nook Glowlight 4 Plus and the Nook/Lenovo Tablet 9. The product page for the Nook Glowlight 4e is still available, but it says it is not available to order in-store or online. The only way you might be able to pick one up is to check with your local B&N Bookstore to see if they have any available.
The Nook Glowlight 4e came out in June of 2022, so it is close to two years old and was not very good. It featured an outdated Carta HD e-paper display with a resolution 1024×758 and 212 PPI. Most e-readers are 300 PPI and use Carta 1200 or Carta 1300. The main reason this newer e-paper is good is that it provides a better reading experience. There is less ghosting, and page turns are faster. Underneath the hood is an Allwinner B300 quadcore 1.5 GHZ CPU processor, 2GB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage. You will be able to charge the reader with a USB-C cable. It has Bluetooth 5.1 and WIFI 802.11 b/g/n to connect to the online bookstore to purchase and download ebooks.
There have been no recent FCC filings for a new Nook e-reader from the booksellers or Netronix. With no new hardware waiting in the wings, it is likely that B&N has just decided to discontinue it. If it were a temporary stock shortage, they wouldn’t have removed it from the main e-reader landing page; the fact they did is very telling. Amazon did something similar when they discontinued the Kindle Oasis.
Update July 3rd: Barnes and Noble confirmed the 2e is EOL. The bookseller is focusing on the Glowlight 4, Glowlight 4 Plus and the new Nook Tablet 9 by Lenovo.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.