- Barnes & Noble and Microsoft MSFT -0.10% are shaking up their e-reading partnership.
- Bloomberg News
Barnes & Noble BKS +1.53% and Microsoft have agreed to revise their digital-reading partnership, allowing the bookseller to stop developing its Nook e-reading app for computing devices powered by Microsoft software.
Barnes & Noble said it would stop work on apps for Windows 8 computers, phones and tablets, and support a possible Microsoft-created digital-reading service or app. That service, which Microsoft hasn’t announced, was mentioned in a regulatory filing Thursday as “the Microsoft Consumer Reader.”
