The folks over at TechCrunch have acquired some internal Microsoft documents that detail a proposed purchase of Nook Media LLC, Barnes & Noble’s digital arm. They are offering to pay $1 Billion for the eBook, eReader, and Tablet assets that the Nook brand represents. Other portions of this fairly recent spinoff from Barnes & [...]
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The latest earnings report out of Barnes & Noble is not looking too great. While the losses in the brick and mortar retail business were surprisingly low this time around, the Nook side of things looks like it is failing. Sales are down 25.9% since the year before. This seems like bad news for Microsoft, [...]
After months of waiting, Barnes & Noble has finally released their newest Windows 8 app. It’s taken a while, but overall the quality seems worth the wait. Last year Microsoft invested $300 million into the Nook, gaining slightly over 17% ownership in that newly formed business. Since then there have been any number of speculations [...]
Barnes & Noble is best known for their chain of brick and mortar book stores stretching across the US. They have also become one of the biggest names in eReaders in the past several years. Second only to the overwhelmingly popular Kindle from Amazon, the Barnes & Noble Nook line can safely be cited as [...]
It’s been a little while now since Microsoft implied that they might be interested in entering into the eReader market with Windows 8. Apparently this was more than just a passing comment, given their recent acquisition. Microsoft is now the owner of 17.6% of the Barnes & Noble subsidiary created to handle the Nook line. [...]
