{"id":750493,"date":"2013-05-09T09:10:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T13:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=499051"},"modified":"2013-05-09T09:10:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T13:10:53","slug":"microsoft-may-be-willing-to-take-nook-off-barnes-nobles-hands-for-1-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/750493","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft may be willing to take Nook off Barnes &amp; Noble&rsquo;s hands for $1 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/09\/microsoft-nook-purchase-offer\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/bgr-nook-hdp-2.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Microsoft Nook Purchase Offer\" title=\"Microsoft Nook Purchase Offer\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>With <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/25\/barnes-and-noble-nook-warning-analysis-342273\/\">Barnes &amp; Noble planning to kill off the Nook<\/a> in the near future, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> is reportedly willing to take the eReader line off the company's hands for the cool $1 billion. <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/05\/08\/microsoft-mulling-nook-media-llc-purchase-for-1-billion\/\"><em>TechCrunch<\/em> reports<\/a> that Microsoft \"is offering to pay $1 billion to buy the digital assets of <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/nook\">Nook<\/a> Media LLC, the digital book and college book\u00a0joint venture\u00a0with Barnes &amp; Noble and other investors.\" Under the terms of the proposed deal, Microsoft would gain control over Nook \"e-books, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/01\/nook-price-cut-uk\/\">Nook e-readers and tablets<\/a>,\" so it seems that Microsoft is looking to branch out its tablet business from high-end devices such as the Surface to cheaper tablets and eReaders in the future. Barnes &amp; Noble's shares jumped nearly 25% in pre-market trading on the rumor.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/sjB8gZ0riYk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Barnes &amp; Noble planning to kill off the Nook in the near future, Microsoft is reportedly willing to take the eReader line off the company&#8217;s hands for the cool $1 billion. TechCrunch reports that Microsoft &#8220;is offering to pay $1 billion to buy the digital assets of Nook Media LLC, the digital book and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-39eJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}