This week, the bookstore Barnes & Noble, which offers Nook, announced a strategic agreement with Microsoft, under which the software giant will invest about $ 605 million in a joint venture with Barnes & Noble, which will operate in the market of electronic books and teaching aids. Specific areas of cooperation have not been made public, but in an interview the head of Barnes & Noble, William Lynch told about some plans for business development.
The Use of Windows 8 as a platform for their tablets, and devices for reading electronic books Barnes & Noble has no plans, but Microsoft may integrate the tools for reading and publishing books in their software products. For example, a document created in Microsoft Office can be immediately published online bookstore Barnes & Noble. Perhaps the widespread of Windows 8 tablets in the segment of Barnes & Noble will attract a new audience.
The developers are going to equip Nook devices with NFC chip . This, in particular, allows usual visitor of the bookstore to be acquainted with annotations to paper books.