Microsoft To Buy Nook For $1 billion

Techcrunch reported that Microsoft has offered $1 billion to buy the digital assets of the Nook Media LLC, which is a joint venture of Barnes & Noble and other investors. Microsoft has expressed willingness to buy preferred amount of units of Nook Media, which also has a college book division. The report also revealed that Nook Media is planning to …

Nook Press Launched By Barnes & Noble’s Nook

Barnes & Noble‘s Nook launched Nook Press today, a new and convenient self-publishing platform for authors. Apparently it’s an improved version of their previous publishing platform, PubIt! It has technology designed with it’s partner FastPencil, and if it’s as successful as it’s predecessor, it’s a fast and easy way to publish your stories, which would reach the users quickly. Pubit! …