![]() ![]() This includes giving users the ability to pay for items on the Nook store using their Microsoft accounts. ![]() ![]() The deal puts a closer link between B&N and Microsoft, something the two had already been fostering through their JV and development initiatives. A little lame considering we’re talking here about a digital asset, not a pre-printed copy of the book, which theoretically should not “sell out.” For example, Life of Pi is only available to the first 100,000 customers who download the book on the NOOK app for Windows 8. Somewhat annoyingly, B&N is setting up some parameters for people to take up the offer quickly. The Nook store currently stocks over 3 million books, comics and other reading material, which includes 1 million free books.ī&N says it is creating a “select list” of free books from which to choose, which will include bestsellers like Best American Series 2012, Blue Bloods, Hello, Cupcake!, Life of Pi and The Enemy, as well as popular magazines like GQ, Real Simple and TIME. ![]() This is in addition to the company’s existing list of free books from its back catalog, similar to what Amazon offers on the Kindle. Barnes & Noble content and tablet subsidiary Nook Media, part-owned by Microsoft specifically to help boost content for its new Windows 8 platform, today put some of that strategy into action: it has announced that people who download the Nook app for Windows 8 will get five books and five magazines free of charge. ![]()
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