It’s Nook versus Kindle with the newly-released Simple Touch

The Barnes & Noble Nook is seemingly set to enter into an almighty throw down with the Amazon Kindle. It has now been discovered that Barnes & Noble will be announcing a new Nook, called the “Simple Touch”, a gadget which is seemingly in line with Kindle’s current line-up of cut-price eReaders.

The Nook Simple Touch, priced at US$99 has “the world’s best reading screen and longest battery life” according to a leaked slide from Barnes & Noble, a US-based book retailer.

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