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Microsoft May Acquire Nook Tablet Business From Barnes and Noble

Posted by timothy on from the another-way-to-make-money-from-android dept.

whoever57 writes "According to a report in Techcrunch, Microsoft is considering buying out the remaining shares in Nook Media. Microsoft already owns 17% of Nook Media. Documents reveal that Nook Media plans to discontinue selling tablets and transition to a model under which media is distributed through partners." (Also at SlashCloud.)

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  1. Next Up by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, the Nook is history, and we will see a crippled Sidewalk or Ceiling Tile or Man Hole or whatever that Microsoft thing is? Oh yes... The Surface.

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    1. Re:Next Up by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 3, Funny

      Vocational collage

      collage?

      Yes. Simular to Basket Weaving 101.

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  2. Re:The Age Old Story by symbolset · · Score: 4, Funny

    And then burn it to the ground.

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  3. Re:The Age Old Story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    But the fourth one stayed up! And that's what you're going to get, lad, the shittiest tablet in all of England.