Total downloads on Barnes & Noble's new app store for Nook Color have passed the 1 million mark.
Originally unveiled towards the end of April, the firm says games have proven some of the most popular apps on the US-only platform, with Rovio's Angry Birds predictably taking hold of the top of the paid apps chart.
Game on
Indeed, of the top five paid apps on offer, four of them are games, with Solitaire taking third spot ahead of Aces Jewel Hunt and Astraware Mahjong.
"Reaching over a million app downloads in just a week since the launch of Nook App shopping for all Nook Color customers exceeded expectations, and is an exciting milestone for our developers, publishing partners, and most importantly for our rapidly growing Nook Color user base," said Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch.
"We're building on the early success of our Nook Apps offering by scaling our collection of popular apps with the thousands of developers whove approached us, while ensuring we continue to deliver the high-quality experience Nook Color is known for."
NB: It's not clear that a month on from the app store's launch, why Barnes & Noble is referring to one week download figures, other than it rolled out access in stages and hence while the store has been available to some customers for a month, it's only been available for all for a week.
Still,t he unveiling of the app store, which launched as part of a platform wide upgrade to Android 2.2 (Froyo), benefited from the early backing of big players such as Namco Bandai and Astraware.
[source: BusinessWire]
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