Barnes & Noble is a leader in online and physical bookstores in the United States, offering a vast selection of books, eBooks, audiobooks, music, movies, toys, and games. Their platform supports book purchases and subscriptions for digital content, and sells various reading devices such as the NOOK eReader.

Yuzu™ 

Yuzu™ is a next-generation reading and note-taking platform allowing students to create personal learning experiences that best suit their needs.

Yuzu encompasses an EPUB 3 Exporter converting InDesign content to fixed-layout EPUBs that was developed by Astea Solutions in collaboration with Barnes & Noble. It represents a major step forward in bringing existing print content to the digital world.

Promotional Article Viewer

The Promotional Article Viewer is a web-based reader, which was developed from scratch by Astea Solutions as part of Barnes & Noble’s first Annual Readers’ Choice Newsstand Awards.

The application gives readers the opportunity to review digital HD versions of nominated articles before picking their favorites in each category. In addition to providing quick and easy navigation within an article, the reader provides users with the option to share a direct link to the article via Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest.

B3

B3 is a multi-channel authoring, reading, and publishing platform for rich and interactive page-based multimedia content with fixed layout. Astea Solutions engineered all aspects of B3, including content renderers for Android- and iOS-based tablets, as well as an Adobe Flash-based content renderer running in the browser or as a standalone application. All of these readers are able to render and play a rich set of transitions and effects in response to various programmatic triggers.

Astea Solutions developed this product, initially on behalf of Balthaser Studios., a Bay Area technology company, and more recently on behalf of Barnes & Noble of New York City after it acquired Balthaser Studios. The Android content renderer targeted Android 2.3-based tablets and was shipped with many of the first Android-based NOOK tablets.