At a press event in New York Tuesday, Barnes & Noble announced that it has captured more than 25% of the ebook market, a 5% increase from the year previous.
The company also announced that the Nook is the bestselling Android tablet in the U.S. and that more than 1 million applications have been downloaded through the Nook platform. In addition, the retailer has established relationships with 8 million digital libraries and more than 50,000 publishers.
Perhaps more impressively, Barnes & Noble has sold more than 1.5 million subscriptions to newspapers and magazines since the feature became available six months ago.
But numbers were just the leadup to the real announcement: a new, smaller, touchscreen ereader called the Simple Touch Reader, which boasts two months of battery life.
