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The deal puts a closer link between B&N and Microsoft, something the two had already been fostering through their JV and development initiatives.

A little lame considering we’re talking here about a digital asset, not a pre-printed copy of the book, which theoretically should not “sell out.” For example, Life of Pi is only available to the first 100,000 customers who download the book on the NOOK app for Windows 8. Somewhat annoyingly, B&N is setting up some parameters for people to take up the offer quickly. The Nook store currently stocks over 3 million books, comics and other reading material, which includes 1 million free books.ī&N says it is creating a “select list” of free books from which to choose, which will include bestsellers like Best American Series 2012, Blue Bloods, Hello, Cupcake!, Life of Pi and The Enemy, as well as popular magazines like GQ, Real Simple and TIME. This is in addition to the company’s existing list of free books from its back catalog, similar to what Amazon offers on the Kindle. Barnes & Noble can­not be responsible for any loss of data transferred to your NOOK.Barnes & Noble content and tablet subsidiary Nook Media, part-owned by Microsoft specifically to help boost content for its new Windows 8 platform, today put some of that strategy into action: it has announced that people who download the Nook app for Windows 8 will get five books and five magazines free of charge. Recommendations for Files After you transfer documents to your NOOK, keep back-up copies on your personal computer. When you have finished arranging files, eject the NOOK drive from your personal computer to unmount the NOOK file system. Move your personal files in the My Files folder.Ĥ. To organize the files, open the NOOK drive. You do not need to install a special driver to transfer files to your NOOK.ģ. If you connect your NOOK to a Windows PC, the PC may display a dialog box asking if you want to install a driver for a NOOK. Drag the files you want to transfer onto the NOOK drive. When you connect your NOOK to your personal computer, your NOOK will appear as a new disk drive labeled NOOK on your personal computer.

Using any other cable might damage your NOOK.Ģ. Use only the microUSB cable provided with your NOOK. Using the microUSB cable provided with your NOOK, connect your NOOK to your personal computer. To transfer files from your personal computer to your NOOK:ġ. Transferring files from your personal computer to your NOOK is also called sideloading. To learn about setting up screen­savers, follow the instructions in your User Guide. *You can transfer photos to your NOOK only for use as screensavers. You can transfer files, including EPUB files, PDFs, and photos*, from your personal computer to your NOOK Simple Touch.