How Green is Your Nook?

Is reading ebooks on B&N Nook really greener than buying paper books? How Green is the Nook Tablet or the Nook Color? What are the environmental and social impacts of the Nook? How much B&N care about the Nook's environmental impacts? Here you will find links to articles published on our blog and on other publications on these issues.

The links are brought to you in a chronological order. We hope you will find them useful!

Nook line:

Nook Tablet - current price: $249

Nook color - current price: $199

Nook Simple Touch - current price: $99


Comparing B&N Nook Tablet, Kindle Fire and the iPad 2 - which tablet is greener? - Eco-Libris blog, November 8, 2011

Just like when the Kindle Fire was out, you can already see detailed comparisons between the new Nook Tablet, the Kindle Fire and the iPad 2, which are all competing each other in the tablet space this season. As you can see here for example, some comparisons also add to the game the older Nook Color, which can also be considered as a tablet.

How green is the Kindle Fire? Amazon week - Part 2: Comparing Kindle Fire, iPad 2 and Nook Color - Eco-Libris blog, October 4, 2011

Today we'll try to compare compare Kindle Fire with iPad 2 and Nook Color and see which device is greener. First, we need to acknowledge the sad fact that currently only Apple publishes information on the carbon footprint of its device , as well as information on its eco-friendly features, such as having an arsenic-free display glass, being brominated flame retardant-free, PVC-free, and so on.


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