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Barnes & Noble slashes price of Android-powered Nook HD tablet to £129

Nook HD+ on sale, too

Barnes & Noble slashes price of Android-powered Nook HD tablet to £129
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It's fair to suggest that Barnes & Noble hasn't enjoyed the success it would have hoped for in the UK since it launched its Nook HD and HD+ tablets last year.

There is, of course, one surefire way to drum up interest in any product - tech or otherwise.

Yep, the price cut.

The Nook HD is a perfectly good piece of tablet hardware, boasting a high-resolution display that makes it great for playing games, watching video, reading books, and leafing through magazines.

Up against the likes of Apple's iPad mini, Amazon's Kindle Fire HD, and Google's Nexus 7, however, the Nook HD hasn't fared particularly well.

Slash-and-don't-burn

Earlier today, though, Barnes & Noble slashed the price of all the devices in its Nook HD range. So, you can now pick up the 7-inch HD version from just £129, while the 9-inch HD+ (with a full 1080p HD display) is now available from just £179.

The Nook HD price drop forms part of a co-ordinated campaign - in conjunction with the London Evening Standard newspaper and Beanstalk - to "Get London Reading".

While you shouldn't let the mention of London scare you off (the offer is available nationwide), the Nook HD and HD+ tablets will be discounted for a limited time only.

Barnes & Noble hasn't told us when this promotion will expire, so you probably shouldn't hang about.

Jonathan Morris
Jonathan Morris
From starting out as a games tester for Mastertronic, Virgin and Sega in the late 1980s, it may seem odd to then ditch everything to write about mobile phones that, at the time, lasted 20 minutes between charges. He always had a hunch mobiles would become quite popular, but possibly didn't realise how powerful (and, ironically, returning to 20 minutes between charges). Jonathan's job is to continue advising on the best hardware to buy, in order to enjoy games that have advanced considerably since those long days and nights testing Double Dragon on the C64.