Barnes and Noble has just updated their Android Reading software to version 3.1. This allows you to now read comic books right in the e-reading application that you buy from the company.
The Barnes and Noble Reading App for Android is a free download from the Google Play Market and allows you to now read Darkhorse comic books right on the reader. B&N made an agreement recently to carry comic books in their online ebook store.
The move to read comic books within the application was a direct response to iBooks getting comic book reading functionality last week. Apple partnered up with Marvel and a bunch of other companies to display graphic novels and comics. These issues are now officially sold in the Apple iBookstore in a new section. Kobo also got into the fray recently selling Darkhorse comics as well, but the Nook App does a better job at reading them.
Check out the free app and a full list of the changes HERE.
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.
