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"It's been almost exactly one year since Barnes &amp; Noble announced its Amazon Kindle competitor, the Nook e-reader. So when invites went out for a Barnes &amp; Noble event to be held on October 26, it was difficult to think that it could be regarding anything other than Nook.\nTo add a bit of fuel to the fire, Barnes &amp; Noble announced on Monday that Nook would soon be updated to firmware version 1.5. The firmware will work on existing Nooks, but it's possible that it also clears a path for new devices.\nBarnes &amp; Noble has also expanded its Nook library into the app ecosystems of mobile platforms like Android. Combine Nook library pervasiveness with customers' nostalgia for visiting bookstores, and Nook seems like a solid idea on paper. Tie the future of e-reading to those bastions of paperback literature, and you're tugging at some deep-rooted sympathy strings. \nNevertheless, the Nook hasn't experienced the smoothest possible sailing over the year, but it did manage to ride some decent waves. According to Barnes &amp; Noble's first quarter report, the Nook was, at least in part, responsible for helping B&amp;N increase revenues by 21% in 2010.\nEven if the product emerging from next week's announcement doesn't yield another 21% spike in revenue for 2011, it could still be considered a solid win. So whatever it is that Barnes &amp; Noble launches next week, Mashable is excited to see it."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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