Barnes & Noble’s eBook Has 2 Screens for More Reading Fun

The eBook market just got interesting!

We posted last week that Amazon’s Kindle was available internationally which allows all Hong Kong readers to easily buy and access ebooks from Amazon.com. Today, U.S. bookseller and publisher Barnes and Nobles fires back, or rather Gizmodo leaks out images of B&N’s proposed eBook reader and it looks to have a second screen to give you some color:

The first screen is an 6-inch e-ink display with an 800×600 pixel resolution. That’s standard for e-books, with this screen having similar refresh and contrast as the second generation Kindle’s. The second display, however, is as wide as the e-ink display but is a multitouch LCD that is meant to be used as the sole interface for browsing swiftly through colored book covers (like Apple’s coverflow, but books instead of of Album art) and buying “rather than forcing eink do things it was not made for.” It is 480×144 pixels in size and has a resolution of 150dpi.

The rumoured price is to be less than the US$279 Kindle and the books that B&N publishes will also come at deep discounts. The most interesting thing to us about this device is that it runs on the Android OS! Full details will be revealed next week along with the final name of the product so hold on to those Kindle dollars until you see the final specs for Barnes and Noble’s newest gadget.