It’s all about getting ahead in the tablet arena these days what with most mobile makers pushing out tablets and Amazon with their Kindle and now apparently Barnes & Noble has plans to announce a new ereader that may counter the Amazon Kindle.

According to the guys over at Mashable, B&N have issued invites to press for an event scheduled for the 24th of this month that could see the launch of the new low-end Nook ereader, which apparently will be priced lower then the Amazon Kindle.

This apparently coincides with info concerning the “launch of a new ereader device” filed with the SEC on the 4th of this month.

Rumours has it, as reported by Cnet, the new B&N ereader may be a low priced, monochrome, compact Nook device that would compete with the Amazon Kindle, but other than that no other details are available but I guess we’ll find out more come the 24th.