Barnes and Noble Nook

Many people who have a Barnes and Noble Nook e-reader or use their e-reading app for Android and iOS have been receiving authentication error messages when accessing their device. This is because the bookseller was hacked last month and had significant downtime. Everything has been resolved and customers can access all of their ebooks and subscriptions and newspapers. If you … [Read more...] about What to do if you have an authentication error on the Nook

Barnes and Noble is running a sales promotion for Nook accessories and you can save over 50% the list price. There are over 11 pages of discounts, basically all of the accessories that they have listed on their site. This includes over 100 different cases, cables, wall chargers, headphones and tons of other items. This is the first time the bookseller has ever ran a sale on … [Read more...] about Barnes and Noble has a 50% off sale on Nook Accessories

Barnes and Noble has made their book club online only, since the global pandemic first begun. Discussion and book club selections are only available on the Facebook Page. The page is private, and readers have to apply, but they pretty well accept everyone. Employees at the B&N retail stores are totally unaware this program exist. The book club pick for November is the Cold … [Read more...] about The Cold Millions is the B&N Book Club November Pick

Barnes and Noble was hacked a couple of weeks ago and they were a victim of a malicious ransomware attack from a group called Egregor. They have published 1% of database they hacked and are making the entire dump available on the darkweb. Barnes and Noble refused to pay the ransomware and instead restored their database and files. This is why it is taking so long for Nook … [Read more...] about Egregor takes responsibility for the Barnes and Noble Ransomware attack

Barnes and Noble experienced an outage a couple of weeks ago, due to a cyber attack on their entire online infrastructure. They did not say anything about the downtime, until too many people were reporting it on Facebook and Twitter. The bookseller finally released an official statement and mainstream media, finally picked up on the story.The Nook services are still not … [Read more...] about Barnes and Noble Nook Services are still not restored

Barnes and Noble experienced an outage last week, that affected their cloud unit and the entire Nook system. People were unable to sync recent purchases to their e-readers, or read most books on their device. Many people thought this was just a problem with their device and decided conduct a factory reset, which made their entire libraries disappear. The B&N website was … [Read more...] about Barnes and Noble Experienced a Cyber Attack

Barnes and Noble is experiencing an outage on their Nook e-readers and the Nook apps for Android and iOS. The Nook libraries are not syncing or loading purchases, which means you cannot read ebooks, view your purchases or make new purchases. Wish lists are totally deleted. The entire Nook system has crashed and it won't be fixed for a couple of days, perhaps longer.Barnes … [Read more...] about Barnes and Noble Nook syncing systems are down

Barnes and Noble CEO James Daunt is currently using the pandemic in the US and most of his bookstore closures to do remodeling and change the way the stores are designed. For the past few decades all of the book buying was done out of New York and the head office mandated the ways stores were designed. Daunt is remodeling and giving the bookstores a chance to display books and … [Read more...] about New Barnes and Noble CEO is committed to the Nook e-reader

Barnes and Noble has just published a rare firmware update for many of their Nook e-readers. Software update 52.0.78 is being pushed out and includes a number of bug fixes and enhancements. One of the most notable is author names always showing as their first and last name. This is useful if you like reading ebooks by the same author, it is easier to sort in your library. There … [Read more...] about Barnes and Noble issues new update for the Nook

The Barnes and Noble Nook app for Windows 10 has been unavailable to download since April and people who wanted to read ebooks on their PC or tablet, were out of luck.  This has all changed, B&N has revised the app, issued a new update and the Windows 10 app is back. It can be installed on PC's, laptops, tablets and 2-in-1's.Since Barnes and Noble was sold to Elliot and … [Read more...] about Barnes and Noble Nook for Windows 10 is back