Barnes & Noble, Inc. today unveiled a new NOOK 7” tablet with expanded storage to carry your virtual library, and an updated reading experience.

This lightweight 7-inch tablet is Barnes & Noble’s most affordable NOOK device at just $49.99, and is on sale today in stores across teh U.S. and on BN.com.

The new NOOK 7" tablet offers double the storage space as the previous model at 16GB (expandable up to 128GB), a front and rear facing camera, Bluetooth capability, a headphone jack, a speaker, and a microphone. It is a full-featured tablet with an LCD display, connection to the Google Play Store, as well as a soft-touch finish and upgraded NOOK software for an improved reading and browsing experience.

The tablet has a custom home screen with access to your current read and recent purchases and shortcuts for browsing the NOOK Bookstore and Library. It also gives readers access to Barnes & Noble’s Browsery, where book lovers can talk about their favorite books and get recommendations for new ones from a community of fellow readers.

The NOOK 7” tablet joins Barnes & Noble’s largest tablet to date, the NOOK 10.1” tablet, released earlier this year and on sale for just $129.99.

Specifications

• 7" IPS Display
• 1024 x 600 Pixel Resolution
• 171 ppi
• Battery Life: Up to 7 hours of reading watching videos and web browsing
• Storage
• 16GB on-board memory
• Add up to 128GB with an optional microSD card
• Built-in Wi-Fi
  
• Wireless connectivity via Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n)
• Dual-Band (2.4GHz/5GHz)
• Connectors
• Micro-USB 2.0
• 3.5 mm headset jack
• microSD slot
• Cameras
• Front: VGA
• Rear: 2 MP
• Supported File Types
• Audio: M4A, 3GA, AAC, MP3, FLAC, WAV, OGG, AAC
• Video: MP4, 3GP, WMV, ASF, AVI, FLV, MKV, WEBM Gallery (pictures): JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP
• Reader/Other: PDF, ePUB, DRP, ePIB, HWP, HWT, HML, HWPX, DOC, DOCX, TXT, RTF, DOT, DOTX, HWDT, XLSX, XLSB, XLS, XLSM,XLTX, XLTM, XLT, CELL, HCDT, PRN, TXT, CSV, TSV, HTML, HTM, PPTX, PPT, POTX, THMX, SHOW, HSDT, HTHEME