Comic books are getting the full ereader treatment, one platform at a time. A couple of weeks ago, the Kindle iPad app received support for comic books and a hefty selection of comics and graphic novels to buy, and now Barnes & Noble has announced that Nook Color and Tablet owners have access to DC Comics’ library of graphic novels. [...]
Whoops! One publisher’s Nook edition of Russian author Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace replaces every instance of the word “kindled” with the non-word “nookd” throughout the entire book. Don’t jump to conclusions just yet, though; this probably isn’t an instance of anti-Amazon trickery-gone-wrong on Barnes & Noble’s part. One former Nook team member took to Hacker News and noted, “It isn’t [...]
Barnes & Noble is spinning off its Nook digital book business into a subsidiary company, and it’s doing so with a $300 million investment from Microsoft. The new company that will result from the partnership hasn’t been named, but its valuation is already higher than that of Barnes & Noble itself. This new partnership might just be the right move [...]
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