Barnes and Noble Intros Nook for Android

Barnes & Noble listens to its customers. The most requested version of the company's eReading software is now available. Today the company added the Nook for Android app to its slate of free eReading software.

With the Nook for Android app, customers with a Motorola DROID X, HTC EVO and other devices using Android OS 1.6 and higher can shop the B&N eBookstore and access their personal Barnes & Noble digital eBook library from their Android phone.

The font style and size of the text can be customized; and books can be read in either landscape or portrait mode. Nook for Android is also the first Android eReader application to offer digital lending. Using LendMe technology, eligible eBooks can be shared for up to 14 days with friends on a Nook eBook Reader, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and PC enabled with free BN eReader software.

Also, those signing up for a new BN.com account when downloading the new app, will find three Barnes & Noble Classics Series eBooks – Dracula, Little Women and Pride & Prejudice – in their libraries, along with samples of two current bestselling eBooks.

Nook for Android is now available at www.bn.com/nookforandroid.

Barnes & Noble also announced its shift to Nook-centric branding across all of its eReading products. Other BN eReader software titles will soon be rebranded as Nook for iPad, Nook for PC, etc.

In even other Barnes & Noble app news, BN eReader for iPad customers can now read The New York Times on their iPad. Organized like the print edition, The New York Times is available for a free 14-day trial and customers can subscribe or purchase single copies through the Barnes & Noble eBookstore.