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RadioShack will begin selling Barnes & Noble Nook e-readers next month. The retailer already carries iPads and Kindles.

Both Barnes & Noble and Kobo have introduced nearly identical e-readers that are clearly intended to embarrass the industry leader, the Amazon Kindle.

Barnes & Noble is adding an applications store and an email program to its Nook e-reader. That brings the $249 device closer to working like a tablet computer in the vein of the iPad.

How to convert a Barnes & Noble Nook Color into a fully functioning tablet computer.

Barnes & Noble said its line of Nook e-readers has become the best-selling product in the company's nearly 40-year history.

Will Barnes & Noble fire the latest shot in the escalating e-reader battles with a color version of the Nook?

B&N cut the price of its Nook e-reader to $199 and unveiled a new W-Fi only model that costs $149, as the competition over electronic-book readers turns to a new battle front: price.