Barnes & Noble is back with a new Nook tablet priced at only $130

You may have been surprised to find out recently that e-book readers are still a thing, but perhaps even more shockingly, Barnes & Noble is looking to make a comeback in the tablet market.

The world’s largest retail bookseller used to provide some stiff competition for Amazon’s Kindles a while ago, although unlike Fire slates, the Nook brand never caught on in its efforts to branch out.

Barnes & Noble caused a bit of a privacy controversy with the 7-inch Nook Tablet a couple of years back, but now that people are likely to have forgotten about that, the Nook 10.1 has ...